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2) Moby Dick
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"Captain Ahab takes his crew on a mission to find Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him." --
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New York Review Books
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English
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"In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel's challenge--to express man's fate by writing the novel that would become his...
5) Moby Dick
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Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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"A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville's emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end--his last three novels have been commercial failures and the critics...
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When he died in 1891, the author of “Moby-Dick” was an obscure figure in American literature. This 1921 biography, placing Melville in the context of his Yankee heritage and drawing from his correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, is largely responsible for reassessing Melville's reputation and restoring him to his rightful place in the literary pantheon.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. A novel blending high-seas romantic adventure, symbolic allegory, and the conflicting ideals of heroic determination and undying hatred, Moby Dick is also revered for its historical accounts of the whaling industry of the 1800's....
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American novels ; 6
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Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who attempts to destroy them by insinuating that Ross and the young man share an unnatural affection. Ross narrates...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2016]
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English
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"In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melvilles passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melvilles own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the iron rule of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged...
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Nonpareil book ; 99
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English
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"First published in 1970, Warren's edition remains the most comprehensive selection of Melville's poetry ever presented. It brings together the best of the Civil War poems from Battle-Pieces (1866), the portraits of sailors from John Marr (1888), and the autumnal lyrics from Timoleon (1891), as well as poems uncollected during Melville's lifetime. Central to the selection are several self-contained passages from Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage to the...
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English
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A portrait of the 19th century writer, Herman Melville, after he wrote his famous Moby Dick. He burns his manuscripts, has an extra-marital affair and goes to work as a customs inspector in New York. Not until 30 years later does he resume writing to produce Billy Bud just before his death.
15) Herman Melville
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Twayne Publishers
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English
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"The first 4 chapters deal with Melville's life and how he began writing. Four other chapters examine his works, one by one." --
16) Herman Melville
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English
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"A collection of critical essays on Melville and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life." --
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the pandemic sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. Obsessed by what his devotion to his art reveals about cost, worth, and debt, she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense friendship with neighbor Nathaniel Hawthorne, and his troubled and troubling marriage to Elizabeth...
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