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- # Introduction
## Overview
This entity represents the introduction section of Herman Melville's novel, "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale." It is identified as an `intro` type and spans from line 1 to line 12 of the source file.
## Context
The introduction was extracted from the file `moby_dick.txt` and is part of the larger collection titled "[Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW)". This introduction serves as the initial text preceding the main body of the novel, "[Moby-Dick; or, The Whale](arke:01KG8AJ9GN1K052QJEZVGKXJ0T)". It is followed by the table of contents, labeled "CONTENTS".
## Contents
The text of the introduction includes the title of the work, "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale," and attributes authorship to Herman Melville.
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MOBY-DICK;
or, THE WHALE.
By Herman Melville
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- Introduction