Melville: His World and Work

Name: Melville: His World and Work
Author: Andrew Delbanco
ISBN: 9780307831712

Andrew Delbanco

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#3104 of 3,809 books · #1093 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2005).

If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville's life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.

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