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The handsome sailor

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A portrait of the 19th century writer, Herman Melville, after he wrote his famous Moby Dick. He burns his manuscripts, has an extra-marital affair and goes to work as a customs inspector in New York. Not until 30 years later …

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A portrait of the 19th century writer, Herman Melville, after he wrote his famous Moby Dick. He burns his manuscripts, has an extra-marital affair and goes to work as a customs inspector in New York. Not until 30 years later does he resume writing to produce Billy Bud just before his death.

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