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- # Introduction
## Overview - What this is (type, form, dates, scope)
This entity is the "Introduction" section of the novel *White-Jacket* by Herman Melville. It is an introductory text extracted from the source file [white_jacket.txt](arke:01KG89J19NC56FFGBCM2SWEZZY) and is identified as lines 1-163 of the text. The introduction was extracted on January 30, 2026, by the structure-extraction-lambda.
## Context - Background and provenance from related entities
This introduction is part of the novel [White-Jacket](arke:01KG8AJ89Z18FKVJV5H0488ZAZ), which is included in the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The text was extracted from the file "white_jacket.txt". The introduction is followed by the first chapter, "CHAPTER I. THE JACKET."(arke:01KG8AJPBD2Q94XN872F7H5S7A).
## Contents - What it contains, key subjects and details
The introduction contains the title page, copyright information, a quote from Fuller's "Good Sea-Captain," and a note describing the author's experiences as an "ordinary seaman" on a United States frigate in the Pacific Ocean in 1843. It also includes the table of contents for the novel, listing the chapters and their titles. The introduction is divided into two chunks: [Chunk 1](arke:01KG8AMDKJF32V4RC122K3WP4W) and [Chunk 2](arke:01KG8AMDKJ7HV70FPAVHTCHZ47).
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