Which Herman Melville novel, dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, begins 'Call me Ishmael' and chronicles Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for a white whale?

• A Billy Budd
• B Typee
• C Moby-Dick ✓
• D The Confidence-Man

Moby-Dick (1851) was a commercial failure during Melville's lifetime but is now regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written, an encyclopaedic meditation on obsession and fate.