Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American - TopicsExpress



          

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahabs voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale. A contemporary commercial failure and out of print at the time of the authors death in 1891, its reputation rose during the twentieth century. D.H. Lawrence called it the greatest book of the sea ever written.[1] Jorge Luis Borges praised the style: Unforgettable phrases abound.[2] Today it is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American Romanticism.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 01:30:25 +0000

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