The 100 best novels: No 17 – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851), Herman Melville
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#x3C;p>Wise, funny and gripping, Moby-Dick still casts a long shadow over American literature, says <strong>Robert McCrum</strong></p>
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The 100 best novels: No 17 – Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851
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Moby DickBy Herman Melville Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the
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