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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Novel · #483 of 500

Why here in the reading order: closes Round 1: obsession and fate at sea, a different register of flight and ocean than Saint-Exupéry just gave you

Connects to: Exploration, Adventure & Travel, Religion & Mythology — Whaling voyage and obsession; allegory and fate

On 5 of the 9 source lists: Bok, G:Best, G:Readers, LeMonde, WorldCat

← #482 in the reading order: Wind, Sand and Stars

#484 next in the reading order: The Lessons of History

Also in Novels, before this: Middlemarch

Also in Novels, after this: Mrs Dalloway