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050	0	0	_aPS2386 _b.P37 1996
082	0	0	_a92 MEL
100	1		_aParker, Hershel
245	1	0	_aHerman Melville _b: a biography _c/ Hershel Parker
260			_aBaltimore _b: Johns Hopkins University Press _c, c1996-
300			_axx, 941p., [32]p. of plates _c; 25cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 891-912) and index.
505	1		_av. 1. 1819-1851.
520			_aThe 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.
600	1	0	_aMelville, Herman, 1819-1891
650		4	_aNovelists, American _y-19th century _v--Biography
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999			_c248801 _d248801