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"Grateful scholars will chew over this massive undertaking in years to come, as they should, saluting Parker for his devotion, solemnity and sheer stamina. As for Melville the man: As Ishmael presciently remarks in MOBY-DICK: "I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face'."Parker, Hershel is the author of 'Herman Melville A Biography, 1851-1891', published 2005 under ISBN 9780801881862 and ISBN 0801881862.
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