Herman Melville, whose representative work Moby Dick is regarded as the national epic of America, is known as one of America's greatest literary figures of the 19th century.

赫尔曼·麦尔维尔是19世纪美国伟大的作家之一，其代表作长篇小说《白鲸》被誉为美国的民族史诗。

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The tragic death symbol in Moby Dick created by the famous America writer Herman Melville is the main characteristic of the novel.

悲剧死之象征是美国著名小说家麦尔维尔所创作的小说《白鲸》中的一个主要特征。

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And we also report the astonishing finding that Herman Melville's great novel Moby Dick predicted the war on terrorism as well as having something to say about Tony Blair.

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