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“As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow,” was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as “The Scarlet Letter,” “Walden,” and “Leaves of Grass,” this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achievement of that stunning period in American letters.
This is a book I feel like I must read again!
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I never tire of reading it. Melville is one of my top five authors.
Source: Shelf AwarenessThis is the book I most want to read again for the first time.
Source: Shelf AwarenessIt fits the definition of “great American novel.”
Source: Shelf AwarenessMoby Dick changed my life.
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