Book cover for Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

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06 October 2016
768 pages
9781509826643
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library

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Moby-Dick is, for me, the supreme American novel, the source and the inspiration of everything that follows in the American literary canon
Melville has himself become part of the literary canon. A fixture.
Much of the impact of Melville’s book on any fierce new convert is implicit in that sense of time travel. Sometimes I read it and I feel like I’m going backward, fast. It reads like something that was written before books were invented, yet it is utterly modern