Herman Melville Vol. 1A Biography, 1819-1851 |
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| Author:
| Parker, Hershel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-5428-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a ''man who lived among the cannibals!'' Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847)--both semiautobiographical travel books, and literary sensations because of ......
Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a ''man who lived among the cannibals!'' Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847)--both semiautobiographical travel books, and literary sensations because of ......