Moby Dick Explained 4 Reasons Why It S The Greatest Novel Ever Written
And that was that: Melville was gone and his greatest book ever written fell out of print. Fortunately, over the next 20 years, publishing house Harper & Brothers did revive the book—and managed to keep it alive despite it teetering on the verge of irrelevance. But then! Ever so slowly, Moby Dick began to rise in the literary world. The original British print of the novel (which lacked the epilogue) was largely replaced with the American print (which did feature the epilogue), which was a better representation of Melville’s work....
