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Herman Melville A Biography 1819-1851
by Parker, Hershel
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- Comments: Maurice Sendak (illustrator). First Edition. Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man who lived among the cannibals!" Until his death in 1891, Melville was known as the author of Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847)-both semiautobiographical travel books, and literary sensations because of Melville's sensual description of the South Sea islanders. (A transatlantic furor raged over whether the books
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- ISBN-13: 9780801854286
- ISBN: 0801854288
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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"To his credit, Mr. Parker has no psychoanalytic or other theory to explain either Melville's life or his writing; his critical commentary on the novels is no more or less than that of a good reader who knows them by heart....The...extravagance of detail in this first [volume] is likely to overwhelm any but the most heroic of Melvilleans; yet in its overreaching way it is worthy of the author of MOBY-DICK..."Parker, Hershel is the author of 'Herman Melville A Biography 1819-1851' with ISBN 9780801854286 and ISBN 0801854288.
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