Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick is, for me, the supreme American novel, the source and the inspiration of everything that follows in the American literary canonRobert McCrum, ‘The 100 best novels’, Guardian

Melville has himself become part of the literary canon. A fixture.Ian McGuire, Independent

Much of the impact of Melville’s book on any fierce new convert is implicit in that sense of time travel. Sometimes I read it and I feel like I’m going backward, fast. It reads like something that was written before books were invented, yet it is utterly modernPhilip Hoare, The New Yorker