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Herman Melville : a biography / Hershel Parker

By:

Parker, Hershel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , c1996-Description: xx, 941p., [32]p. of plates ; 25cmISBN:

9780801854286

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 MEL

LOC classification:

PS2386 .P37 1996

Incomplete contents:

v. 1. 1819-1851.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 MEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		041792

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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.

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