Among them is a note ostensibly sent by Herman Melville to his publisher, George P.

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"Billy Budd" (1951), based on an original story by Herman Melville, is a study in doomed innocence.

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When it served as the Customs House, the author Herman Melville worked there.

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We'll never know what Herman Melville would have made of it all.

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Many also admit to wrongly claiming to have read the classics, including authors Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.

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These incidents remind me of an 1853 Herman Melville story about a clerk named Bartleby, who one day simply refuses to do what is asked of him.

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Arguably the most popular island, Nuku Hiva is where author Herman Melville jumped out of a whaling ship in 1842 and was captured by the local Taipa tribe.

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And we also report the astonishing finding that Herman Melville's great novel Moby Dick predicted the war on terrorism as well as having something to say about Tony Blair.

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In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

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Herman Melville would have been pleased.

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