Herman Melville : a biography
Parker, Hershel
Herman Melville : a biography / Hershel Parker - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , c1996- - xx, 941p., [32]p. of plates ; 25cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 891-912) and index.
v. 1. 1819-1851.
The first of a two-volume project, this book by a lifelong scholar of Melville's life, works, and milieu pinpoints the facts of Melville's life with great accuracy and completeness. Melville here appears amid the all-too-human hopes and anxieties that inspired and ensnared him during his early career, when he passed from the status of America's first literary symbol to that of a still-young man who dared to write Shakespearean prose.
9780801854286
96018984
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Novelists, American---19th century----Biography
PS2386 / .P37 1996
92 MEL
Herman Melville : a biography / Hershel Parker - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , c1996- - xx, 941p., [32]p. of plates ; 25cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 891-912) and index.
v. 1. 1819-1851.
The first of a two-volume project, this book by a lifelong scholar of Melville's life, works, and milieu pinpoints the facts of Melville's life with great accuracy and completeness. Melville here appears amid the all-too-human hopes and anxieties that inspired and ensnared him during his early career, when he passed from the status of America's first literary symbol to that of a still-young man who dared to write Shakespearean prose.
9780801854286
96018984
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Novelists, American---19th century----Biography
PS2386 / .P37 1996
92 MEL
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