>best English writer >he's American What did

>Moby Dick
>Ulysses

If you had to erase one of these two books from existence, which one would you choose?

>>9297134
Moby-Dick.

The Irish would be monumentally hurt by the loss of Ulysses. But we Americans could endure the loss of Moby-Dick. We would simply replace it with one of our other Great American Novels.

>>9297134
Moby Dick.

>>9297134
Moby Dick. Is worse.

Moby dick is great but Ulysses is way more important

>>9297134
Ulysses without a doubt.

You faggots only make me not want to read them

>>9297233
Read Moby-Dick. Its wonderful and you are missing out if you don't read it. Its such a joyous novel.

>>9297208
I think an intensive comparison of the two would be instructive. What's really funny is that Joyce actually set out to "end the novel," meanwhile Melville was just taking an adventure story about whaling and revising it based on his readings of Hawthorne. He didn't mean to create arguably the greatest novel ever written, but he may have. Or, rather, he didn't set out to write the absolute best novel the way Joyce pretty explicitly did.

>>9297256
If it was just an adventure story about whaling you might want to add "heavily revising it" instead of just "revising it," and not just Hawthorne but Shakespeare and Milton as well.

>>9297233
How is that anything other than completely on you, you god damned prole