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A sample of Readine Passage: Herman Melvile, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. He travelled extensively and used the knowledge gained during his travels as the basis for his early novels in 1897, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on sad a merchant ship that was to sail from Massachusetts home to Liverpool, England. His experiences on this trip served as a basis for the novel Redium (1849). In 1841 Melville set out on a whaling ship headed for the South Seas After jumping ship in Tahiti, he wandered around the islands of Tahib and Moorea. This South Sea Island sojourn was a backdrop to the novel Omoo (1547) After three year wway from home, Melville joined up with a US naval fricate that was returning to the eastern United States around Cape Horn. The novel White Backet (1850) describes this lengthy voyage as a navy seaman With the publication of these early adventure novels Melville developed strong and loyal following among readers ager for his tales of exotic places and situations. However, in 1851, with the publication of Moby Dick, Melville's popularity started to diminish, Moby Dick, on one level the saga of the hunt for the great white whale, was also a heavily symbolic allegory of the heroic struggle of humanity against the universe. The public was not ready for Mile's literary metamorphosis from romantic adventure to philosophical symbolism. It is wonic that the novel that served to diminish Melville's popularity during his time is the one for which he is best known today 1. The main subject of the passages Melville travel b. the popularity of Melville's novels c. Melville's personal background d. Moby Dick 2. According to the passage, Melville's early novels were a published while he was traveling b.completely fictional call about his work on whaling ships