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Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (Library of America)

by Herman Melville

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About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

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ISBN:

9780940450004

Editor:

Tanselle, G. Thomas

With:

Tanselle, G. Thomas

With:

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Editor:

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Author:

Melville, Herman

Author:

Tanselle, G. Thomas

Publisher:

Library of America

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Classics

Subject:

American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Subject:

Polynesia

Subject:

Adventure stories

Subject:

Sea stories

Subject:

Indigenous peoples

Subject:

Sailors

Subject:

Autobiographical fiction

Subject:

Polynesia Description and travel Fiction.

Subject:

Marquesas Islands.

Subject:

American fiction (fictional works by one auth

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Edition Description:

B-Hardcover

Series:

Library of America (Hardcover)

Publication Date:

19820531

Binding:

HARDCOVER

Grade Level:

from 12

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

1333

Dimensions:

8.12x5.29x1.49 in. 1.82 lbs.

Age Level:

from 18

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