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With Moby-Dick Herman Melville set the standard for the Great American Novel, and with “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd he completed perhaps the greatest oeuvre of any of our writers. Now Andrew Delbanco, hailed by Time as “America’s best social critic,” uses unparalleled read more...

"Andrew Delbanco charts Herman Melville's growth from the bawdy storytelling of Typee - the "labial melody" of his "indulgent captivity" among the Polynesians - through the spiritual preoccupations building up to Moby Dick and such later works as Pierre, or the Ambiguities and The Confidence-Man, read more...