NP but Melville. Bonus post since I duplicated. Second prize: you get another! (First prize: they stop!)

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/whatever-happened-to-the-book-
herman-melville-wrote-after-moby-dick?via=twitter_page

Wrong about HarperBros making money at all on Moby Dick. Didn't sell until
out of copyright. Sold 50 copies the first year.It was no Gravity's
Rainbow.