and Original Sin.” Hawthorne, on his side, had recognized Melville as “no common man” and said of his writing that “no man ever put the reality before his reader more unflinchingly.” The two writers became friends and often walked together, talking “about time and eternity, things of this world and the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters.” It was to Hawthorne that Melville dedicated Moby Dick (1851), writing to him of the “hell-fire in which the whole book is