Question
After this author went into debt buying a 160-acre farm, he published a novel about Pierre Glendinning Jr. titled Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, whose poor reception crippled his finances even more. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who struggled financially after the hostile reaction in the US to his novel Moby-Dick.
ANSWER: Herman Melville
[10h] Melville's inconsistent income led him to struggle to find a publisher for this novel about a character who fights at the Battle of Bunker Hill and spends fifty years in exile after the British capture him.
ANSWER: Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile
[10m] Though he struggled with rheumatism that hurt his finances, Melville saw slight success with this novella, in which a figurehead reading “Follow your leader” falls off the San Dominick.
ANSWER: Benito Cereno
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Summary
| 2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley | 11/02/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl CWRU | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Chicago | 11/02/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl Texas | 11/02/2024 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 Penn Bowl UK | 10/26/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| JHU A | Princeton | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |