Herman Melville

Moby Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville

Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody. In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a ClassicThis book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".