Author: Herman MelvillePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Writings: Redburn
Author: Herman MelvilleThe Writings: Redburn, his first voyage
Author: Herman MelvilleThe Writings: Redburn
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780810101609
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Redburn
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775452220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Sea voyages and the vagaries of life on a ship are constant themes in the work of Herman Melville. In the novel Redburn, Melville sharply contrasts the refined sensibilities of the title character, an upper-class American youth, with the coarse manners of his Liverpudlian shipmates. The novel is notable for its finely drawn characters and piercing social criticism.
Redburn Illustrated
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work", scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick"
Israel Potter
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810105539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation. This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
Redburn
Author: Israel Potter
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810105522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation. This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).
Redburn
Author: Herman MelvillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780781269902
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
Author: Herman Melville