Herman Melville: Characterological drawback of consorting with cannon

==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts American writers on peace and against war Herman Melville: Selections on peace and war ==== Herman MelvilleFrom White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War Quoin, the quarter-gunner, was the representative of a class on board the Neversink, altogether too remarkable to be left astern, without further […]

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