ISBN: 9780801854286

Having attended the best Manhattan boys schools, Herman was withdrawn from classes at the Albany Academy at age 12, shortly after his fathers death. Outdly docile, indly rebellious, he wo… Mehr…

Having attended the best Manhattan boys schools, Herman was withdrawn from classes at the Albany Academy at age 12, shortly after his fathers death. Outdly docile, indly rebellious, he worked where his family put him???. 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 Melvilles sensual description of the South Sea islanders. (A transatlantic furor raged over whether the books were fact or fiction.) His most famous character was Fayaway???not Captain Ahab, not the White Whale, not Bartleby, and definitely not Billy Budd, whose story remained unpublished until 1924. Herman Melville, 1819-1851 is the first of a two-volume project constituting the fullest biography of Melville ever published. Hershel Parker, co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, reveals with extraordinary precision the twisted turmoil of Melvilles life, beginning with his Manhattan boyhood where, surrounded by tokens of heroic ancestors, he witnessed his fathers dissipation of two family fortunes. Having attended the best Manhattan boys schools, Herman was withdrawn from classes at the Albany Academy at age 12, shortly after his fathers death. Outdly docile, indly rebellious, he worked where his family put him???in a bank, in his brothers fur store???until, at age 21, he escaped his responsibilities to his impoverished mother and his six siblings and sailed to the Pacific as a whaleman.A year and a half after his return, Melville was a famous author, thanks to the efforts of his older brother in finding publishers. Three years later he was married, the man of the family, a New Yorker???and still not equipped to do the responsible thing: write more books in the vein that had proven so popular. After the disappointing failure of Mardi, which he had hoped would prove him a literary genius, Melville wrote two more saleable books in four months??? Redburn and White-Jacket. Early in 1850 he began work on Moby-Dick. Moving to a farmhouse in the Berkshires, he finished the book with majestic companions???Hawthorne a few miles to the south, and Mount Greylock looming to the north. Before he completed the book he made the most reckless gamble of his life, borrowing left and right (like his wastrel patrician father), sure that a book so great would outsell even Typee.Melville lovers have known Hershel Parker as a newsbringer???from the shocking false report headlined Herman Melville Crazy to the tantalizing title of Melvilles lost novel, The Isle of the Cross. Carrying on the late Jay Leydas The Melville Log, Parker in the last decade has transcribed thousands of new documents into what will be published as the multi-volume Leyda-Parker The New Melville Log. Now, exploring the psychological narrative implicit in that mass of documents, Parker recreates episode after episode that will prove stunningly new, even to Melvilleans., Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Edition Description: 1st, Format: Hardcover, Publication Date: 29-10-1996, Language: English, Publication Year: 29-10-1996, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms: 10X2.25X6.25, ISBN-10: 0801854288, ISBN-13: 9780801854286, SKU: SONG0801854288, EAN: 9780801854286, Johns Hopkins University Press<

ISBN: 9780801854286

Johns Hopkins University Press. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, wit… Mehr…

Johns Hopkins University Press. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1<

1996, ISBN: 9780801854286

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996-10-29. Hardcover. Good. Clean and sturdy copy with unmarked text. No dust jacket. Minor corner wear. Minor wear on bottom of spine. Bright white pag… Mehr…

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996-10-29. Hardcover. Good. Clean and sturdy copy with unmarked text. No dust jacket. Minor corner wear. Minor wear on bottom of spine. Bright white pages. Biography. BA., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996-10-29, 2.5<

1996, ISBN: 9780801854286

Hard cover, Shows wear such as frayed or folded edges, rips and tears, and/or worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages., Gebrauc… Mehr…

Hard cover, Shows wear such as frayed or folded edges, rips and tears, and/or worn binding. May have stickers and/or contain inscription on title page. No observed missing pages., Gebraucht, [PU: Johns Hopkins University Press]<