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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Emma Magnus

Moby Dick author Herman Melville's London townhouse is for sale for £9 million

25 Craven Street is on the market for £9 million - (Wetherell)

The former residence of Moby Dick author Herman Melville could be yours for £9 million.

Melville, who was born in New York, spent much of his life at sea and came to London in the autumn of 1849 to secure a publisher for his novel White-Jacket, or, the World in a Man-of-War and to conduct research for his fictionalised account of the American revolutionary Israel Potter.

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