Original sentence: Herman Melville has an early reference to the crackers in Book XXII, Chapter I of his 1852 novel Pierre; or The Ambiguities - "For all the long wards, corridors, and multitudinous chambers of the Apostles' were scattered with the stems of apples, the stones of prunes, and the shells of peanuts
Edited sentence: Herman Melville has an interesting early reference to the crackers in Book XXII, Chapter I of his 1852 novel Pierre; or The Ambiguities - "For all the long wards, corridors, and multitudinous chambers of the Apostles' were scattered with the stems of apples, the stones of prunes, and the shells of peanuts