Herman Melville Collection
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Author | : Herman Melville |
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Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 3099 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0735253250 |
Seven novels by one of the greatest American authors, plus his short fiction masterpiece. Includes The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade; Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile; Mardi, and a Voyage Thither; Moby-Dick; or, The Whale; Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, Redburn: His First Voyage, and White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War. Also includes the spectacular short story "Bartleby the Scrivener." Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Author | : Herman Melville |
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Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 2020-05-07 |
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Three classics in one! Wonderfully spread out in one, annotated and illustrated, compact volume. Many vintage books are increasingly scarce and expensive. We published this volume in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a biography of the author.Includes: Redburn (1849)White-Jacket (1850)Moby Dick (1851
Author | : Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
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Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : William Hazlitt |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Steven Olsen-Smith |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609383338 |
Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of America’s most securely canonical authors. Born into patrician wealth but plunged into poverty as a child, in 1840 he signed aboard the whaleship Acushnet in the midst of a nationwide depression and sailed to the South Pacific. At the Marquesas Islands, he deserted and lived for a time among one of the group’s last unsubjugated tribes. Upon his return home, he achieved overnight success with a book based on his experiences, Typee (1846). Melville’s mastery of the English language and heterodox views made him a source of both controversy and fascination to western readers, until his increasing commitment to artistry and contempt for artificial conventions led him to write Moby-Dick (1851) and its successor Pierre (1852). Although the former is considered his masterwork today, the books offended mid-nineteenth-century cultural sensibilities and alienated Melville from the American literary marketplace. The resulting eclipse of his popular reputation was deepened by his voluntary withdrawal from society, so that obituaries written after his death in 1891 frequently expressed surprise that he hadn’t died long before. With most of his personal papers and letters lost or destroyed, his library of marked and annotated books dispersed, and first-hand accounts of him scattered, brief, and frequently conflicting, Melville’s place in American literary scholarship illustrates the importance of accurately edited documents and the value of new information to our understanding of his life and thought. As a chronologically organized collection of surviving testimonials about the author, Melville in His Own Time continues the tradition of documentary research well-exemplified over the past half-century by the work of Jay Leyda, Merton M. Sealts, and Hershel Parker. Combining recently discovered evidence with new transcriptions of long-known but rarely consulted testimony, this collection offers the most up-to-date and correct record of commentary on Melville by individuals who knew him.
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Release | : 2022 |
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Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781452173849 |
In time for the 200th anniversary of author Herman Melville's birth, this graphically arresting, beautifully rendered pop-up retelling of Moby-Dick is a wonder to behold. Rich linocut artworks portray ten key chronological moments from the story in shadowbox-style pop-ups that reward time spent poring over the details and offer fresh perspectives on the classic. Each spread is accompanied by select quotations from the book, while brief page notes provide additional context for the depicted plot moments. With striking typography presented in an authentic broadsheet style, here is an adventure in book craft and storytelling.
Author | : Herman Melville |
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Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Marginalia |
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Author | : Geoffrey Sanborn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108471447 |
This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.