Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public.
Table of Contents
Whaling -- New York -- Redburn -- Typee -- Elizabeth -- Omoo, Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- Family, Pierre, "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- Marriage, The Confidence-Man -- Hawthorne -- Billy Budd -- Death -- Afterword -- Bibliography.