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Moby Dick Tee

Moby Dick Tee

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It sold badly and the reviews were worse. One London paper called it an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact, and it moved fewer copies than anything else Melville had written. The book was out of print when he died in 1891, and the revival did not begin until the 1920s. The whale in the story is not hunted so much as survived, carrying the broken irons of everyone who tried before. Six hundred pages of obsession and he still loses. For people who came around to it on the second attempt.

A Moby Dick graphic tee for literature readers, Melville admirers, and anyone whose favourite book was ignored in its own time. The white whale breaching with old harpoons still buried in its head and lines trailing, cut against blue lightning. A gift for English majors, sailors, librarians, and the pleasantly obsessive.

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Ioan F.
great black

Deep, even black. Not the faded grey you get elsewhere.

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Megan E.
english class shirt

Teaching Melville this term. This is my uniform now.

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Emrys I.
call me impressed

Whale linework is beautiful. Reads well from across a room.