Product Description: White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS United States...read more

Product Description: Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker’s history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The first part is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning two-volume life of Herman Melville...read more

Product Description: In 1849—months before the term “confidence man” was coined to identify a New York crook—Thomas Powell (1809–1887), a spherical, monocled, English poetaster, dramatist, journalist, embezzler, and forger, landed in Manhattan. Powell in London had capped a career of grand theft and literary peccadilloes by feigning a suicide attempt and having himself committed to a madhouse, after which he fled England...read more

Product Description: Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals...read more

Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities has a storied place in the history of American publishing. Melville began writing this follow-up to Moby-Dick in October 1851, thinking that it might prove even more significant than its predecessor. The 1852 publication of Pierre was catastrophic, however. In Reading Melville's 'Pierre; or, The Ambiguities,' noted Melville authorities probe the daunting story behind a deeply flawed but revealing work, one that directly reflects the major crisis of Melville's authorial life.

The first of a two-volume biography of Melville traces his life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of Moby-Dick.

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

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The first of a two-volume work promising to be the fullest biography of Melville yet published traces his life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of Moby-Dick. UP.

Product Description: Book by Parker, Hershel, Hayes, Kevin

Product Description: In this study of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, renowned Melville scholar Hershel Parker provides the fullest introduction to and analysis of this work to date. It is the first complete reading of Billy Budd to draw on the definitive but neglected Hayford-Sealts Genetic Text...read more

Product Description: An evaluation of the importance of textual criticism in evaluation of important literary works, based on his study of important American literary works by authors such as James, Crane, and Mailer.

Product Description: ABOUT THIS BOOK: Here is a wealth of critical comment about the novel Pierre, one of Melville's most notorious and controversial works. Dubbed "The Most Impossible of All His Books" (Julian Hawthorne), Pierre has eventually come to be regarded as a complex and multi-valenced book -- one that perhaps reveals more about Melville than any other...read more

Presents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville. (view table of contents)