On this day in 1851, Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is published by Harper & Brothers in New York, according to the History Channel's web site.

Moby-Dick is  considered a great classic of American literature and contains one of the most famous opening lines in fiction: "Call me Ishmael."

 For many, however, it remains only useful as a doorstop.

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