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Moby-Dick

Name: Moby-Dick
Author: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780142437247

Herman Melville, 1851

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Gilmore Girls · S1 E1 · Rory Gilmore · On the walk to Doose's Market

Rory on the walk to Doose's: Moby-Dick

Melville's 1851 whale book sold so poorly in his lifetime that he spent his later years working as a customs inspector in New York. Rory calling it really good at 16 puts her ahead of a lot of the critics of 1851.

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