Herman Melville, The Last Great Enigma Of American Literature

Robert McCrum wrote an interesting piece about Herman Melville and Jay Parini's The Passages of Herman Melville, a fictional account of the great author of Moby Dick in the British newspaper The Guardian:

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/30/herman-melville-mark-twain-parini