Description

Sophie becomes a big fat whale while Andrew struggles to remember any character in the novel he just read. Topics include the power of cultural touchstones, canonizing books and authors, why Moby Dick became such a highly praised classic, Harold Bloom's thoughts on the subject, and more. 

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Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Wordsworth edition): https://amzn.to/3HC2cg0

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Penguin edition): https://amzn.to/41JLCl9

Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories by Herman Melville: https://amzn.to/4mjvHlM

More Books by Herman Melville: https://amzn.to/4mldZi1

Harold Bloom’s Lecture on Moby Dick: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFt59_E_g5s

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