Melville
Melville is a surname, most associated with Herman Melville, the American novelist who wrote *Moby-Dick*.
The name appears in place names across the English-speaking world and occasionally as a given name.
Something described as Melvillean suggests the author's style—epic scope, philosophical digression, obsessive pursuit.
Traditional masculine name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- Moby-DickEpic whaling novel
- PierreFrench male name
- poetWriter of verse
Bartleby · Hawthorne · antebellum · Romanticism · allegory · symbolism · metaphysical
Epic whaling novel
- PequodFictional whaling ship
- IshmaelCast-out firstborn son
- leviathanEnormous creature or entity
- harpoonBarbed spear for whales
Ahab · Queequeg · Starbuck · spermaceti · blubber · ambergris · flensing · scrimshaw
Traveling by ocean vessel
ocean · forecastle · mast · rigging · deck · helm · quartermaster · capstan
Accepted as standard
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
- influentialHaving considerable effect
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
- posthumousOccurring after death
overlooked · classic · enduring · timeless · seminal · landmark
Stadium or water brand
- AlbanyNew York State capital
- ManhattanNYC's densest borough
- BerkshiresMassachusetts mountain region
- MassachusettsNortheastern colonial state
Herman
Traditional masculine name
Bartleby · poet · Hawthorne · antebellum · Romanticism · allegory · symbolism · metaphysical
Moby-Dick
Epic whaling novel
Ahab · Queequeg · Starbuck · harpoon · spermaceti · blubber · ambergris · flensing · scrimshaw · whaleboat
seafaring
Traveling by ocean vessel
ship · ocean · forecastle · mast · rigging · deck · helm · quartermaster · capstan · anchor
canonical
Accepted as standard
- masterpieceSupreme artistic achievement
- influentialHaving considerable effect
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
posthumous · overlooked · classic · enduring · timeless · seminal · landmark
Arrowhead
Stadium or water brand
- AlbanyNew York State capital
- ManhattanNYC's densest borough
- BerkshiresMassachusetts mountain region
Massachusetts · Liverpool · Marquesas · Tahiti · Galápagos
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- American ClassicsMoby-Dick, Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass
MelvilleHemingway
genre fiction · minimalism · Jane Austen · Horatio Alger · Dashiell Hammett
MelvilleJane Austen
Regency-era English novelist
Louisa May Alcott · Edith Wharton · drawing room drama · Henry James · romance novel
MelvilleCharles Dickens
Longfellow · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Mark Twain · bestselling author · bestseller