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Herman Melville |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.39 x 7.79in | 176 pages | ISBN 9780670891580 | 05 Jun 2000 | Viking Adult | 18 - AND UP |
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A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging shape of his life . . . a story of the creative history of an extraordinary American genius."
Hardwick's superb critical interpretation and award-winning novelistic flair reveal a former whaleship deckhand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. Later, a self-described "thought-diver" into "the truth of the human heart," Melville harbored a bitterness that knew no bounds when that same public failed to embrace his masterwork, Moby-Dick. Invaluable for enthusiasts of American literature, Herman Melville is itself a masterpiece of critical commentary in the tradition of D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature.
Herman Melville
Whaling
New York
Redburn
Typee
Elizabeth
Omoo, Mardi
Moby-Dick
Family, Pierre, "Benito Cereno,"Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Marriage, The Confidence-Man
Hawthorne
Billy Budd
Death
Afterword
Bibliography
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