AFTER SOME TIME, REALLY it was a long time, but they had not noticed it, he suddenly burst forth. "But how did you know?"
She lifted a flushed and smiling face: and pointed to the title page again.
"'A. Gage.'—You threw it down."
"And you—" He threw back his head and laughed delightedly. "You threw down A-N-Other! O you witch! You immeasurably clever darling! How well our work fits. By Jove! What good times we'll have!"
And they did.
Herman Melville
HERMAN MELVILLE BELONGS to the group of artists whose works grew in importance and stature aftertheir death. His works exemplify the genre of Dark Romanticism. Born in New York City in 1819, he published Moby-d**k; or The Whale in 1851, the year before Harriet Beecher Stowe was to publish Uncle Tom's Cabin and the year after Nathanial Haw
