| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1971 - 446 pages
"Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soulbewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck without beginning or end - a labyrinth without a ... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 2000 - 324 pages
The author's comic experiences in a South Seas setting has him working at odd jobs, viewing traditional rites and customs, and even contriving an audience with the Tahitian Queen. | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1970 - 749 pages
Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main ... | |
| Herman Melville - 2006 - 102 pages
Every person around has a dream world which is influenced by the outer world. But when internal passions try to descend over practical tasks then characters like ''Bartleby ... | |
| Hershel Parker - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 1010 pages
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity. | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1998 - 316 pages
Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of ... | |
| Herman Melville - American fiction - 1986 - 776 pages
One of America's greatest writers, Herman Melville often based his novels on the remarkable experiences of his own life. Unpopular in their time, they are now recognized as ... | |
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