Herman Melville: 1819-1851
- ISBN-10
- 0801854288
- ISBN-13
- 9780801854286
- Series
- Herman Melville
- Category
- Novelists, American
- Pages
- 941
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Hershel Parker
Description
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.
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