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The Great Moby Dick

R.C. Sproul recommends again the novel he calls the greatest ever written, Moby Dick.

In a personal letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne upon completing this novel, Melville said, “I have written an evil book.” What is it about the book that Melville considered evil? I think the answer to that question lies in the meaning of the central symbolic character of the novel, Moby Dick, the great white whale.

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