Herman Melville

Herman Melville
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 1070
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801881862

Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.

Herman Melville: 1851-1891

Herman Melville: 1851-1891
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 1072
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801868924

Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.

A Study Guide for Herman Melville's Billy Budd

A Study Guide for Herman Melville's Billy Budd
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410335518

A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Billy Budd," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

The Herman Melville Collection

The Herman Melville Collection
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.