le character that colours the proceedings of the tale.
             (Fiedler, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. Cleveland: World,
             The author Herman Melville was born on the first of August in 1819 in New
             York City, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort
             Melville. Herman Melville's father was flourishing importer of foreign
             commodities. When the family business failed at the end of the 1820s, the
             Melville's relocated to Albany in an attempt to perk up their wealth. In a
             twine of additional bad luck. Working day and night drove Allan to an early
             grave, and the young Herman was forced to start working in a bank at the
             age of thirteen. Melville left school at eighteen to become an elementary
             school teacher. This career was abruptly cut short and followed by a brief
             tenure as a newspaper reporter. Herman Melville worked as a bank clerk
             before attending the Albany Classical School, and then wo
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