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How did *Moby-Dick*, a peculiar commercial failure, become a "Great American Novel?"
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Moby-Dick is, well, an odd book, and Wikipedia tells me it sold a mere 3,215 copies before going out of print in 1887. Yet Captain Ahab and the titular whale are now ubiquitous pop culture references, more recognizable than most any other bits of 19th-century American literature.
How did this shift happen? What led to the "re-discovery" of the novel and its enormous popularization?
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