Prologue of Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville
I’m re-reading the prologue of Moby-Dick, by Herman Mellville. (I’m recalling some thoughts I had about it in a recent class.) It’s odd that a novel would begin with a prologue like that. Are there other novels that begin with prologues like that? Sure there are! Do any of those novels actually publish their prologues? Few, I wonder.
Tags: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Narrative, Prologue, Writing