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Moby-Dick
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Herman Melville, Hershel Parker
Häftad, 2017
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209 kr
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The text here is based on Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford’s 1967 edition, footnoted to include biographical discoveries. Reviews, letters by Melville and belated praise is collected, and a wealth of new biographical material has been added, while new research is highlighted. Parker also …
Confidence-Man
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Herman Melville, Hershel Parker m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
279 kr
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The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions."Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, …
Moby-dick, or the Whale
Av Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
250 kr
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This edition of ""Moby-Dick"", released in honour of the book's 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world's great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; …
Herman Melville
A Biography
Häftad, 2005
813 kr
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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 …
Herman Melville
A Biography
Häftad, 2005
669 kr
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The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville-a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize-closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to …
Typee
Av Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
234 kr
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Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, ""Typee"" was immensely popular and regarded in …
Melville
The Making of the Poet
Inbunden, 2007
434 kr
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Who would have looked for philosophy in whales, or for poetry in blubber? the London John Bull remarked in October of 1851. And yet, the reviewer went on, ""few books which professedly deal in metaphysics, or claim the parentage of the muses, contain as much true philosophy and as much genuine …
Clarel: a Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Av Herman Melville, Hershel Parker
Häftad, 2008
267 kr
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Melville’s long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville’s advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American …
Powell Papers
A Confidence Man Among the Anglo-American Literati
Inbunden, 2011
907 kr
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This uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Thomas Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery through the words of great artists and then-admired journalists alike.
Melville Biography
An Inside Narrative
Inbunden, 2013
715 kr
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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 mesmerising autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning …
Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous & Uncollected
Av Herman Melville, Hershel Parker
E-bok, 2019
285 kr
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An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America''s greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennial Best known today for his novels and stories, the author of Moby-Dick was a devoted and accomplished poet. Ranging from Civil War battlefields to the haunted byways of the Holy Land, …
Clarel
A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Av Herman Melville, Hershel Parker
Häftad, 2008
250 kr
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Reading Melville's Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
Av Brian Higgins, Hershel Parker
Inbunden, 2007
524 kr
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Herman 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, …
Redburn
Works of Herman Melville Volume Four
Av Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford m. fl.
Häftad, 1969
682 kr
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Journals
Volume Fifteen, Scholarly Edition
Av Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford m. fl.
Inbunden, 1989
1550 kr
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Correspondence
Volume Fourteen, Scholarly Edition
Av Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1550 kr
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Herman Melville: Complete Poems
Timoleon / Posthumous & Uncollected / Library of America #320
Av Herman Melville, Hershel Parker
Inbunden, 2019
520 kr
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An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America's greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennial Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the …
