Parker, Hershel <br/><br/>
Herman Melville  : a biography 
/ Hershel Parker 
 - Baltimore  : Johns Hopkins University Press  , c1996- 
 - xx, 941p., [32]p. of plates  ; 25cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 891-912) and index. 
<br/><br/>v. 1. 1819-1851. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801854286 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96018984 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Novelists, American---19th century----Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS2386  / .P37 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 MEL