Five Best Herman Melville Books

Today it is celebrated as one of America's great novels, but when it came out, Moby-Dick was received with little acclaim and none of the commercial success of Herman Melville's first book, Typee. Here, Hester Blum, Professor of English at Penn State, introduces the 19th century American novelist and recommends which books to read by and about him.

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