Melville: His World and Work

If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, award-winning author 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 09/12/2006
ISBN: 9780375702976
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.32w x 0.91d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/08/2006 pg. 36