To discuss your favorite or most hated authors and books of the 1800s.
In general terms, the 19th century was a fantastic era for the development of the novel as we know it today. So many authors from different countries with so many different and elegant styles, literary movements and genres.
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One of the things that impressed me about Herman Melville is what a knowledgeable man he was for the time. He displays a quasi encyclopedic knowledge on so many subjects in Moby Dic, but above all in that novel he’s such a whale-autist. So many pages where he talks about the history of whaling, how to catch a whale, different types of whale, whaling legislation, historical whalers (he claims the dragon St George killed was a whale, lol), and how whaling is the most awesome thing ever. I don’t think anyone else could write a masterpiece like his while pulling the same level of autism. Truly on the greatest.
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Bartleby was the ur-autist
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