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1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes

Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the

play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1922 novel by James Joyce

medieval French poem

1988 Italian novel by Umberto Eco

novel by Milorad Pavić

collection of more than 60 Travel Novels by Jules Verne

1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon

1996 novel by David Foster Wallace

2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

1997 novel by Don DeLillo

American novel by Joseph Heller

literary concept