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" Herman Melville / "
Elizabeth Hardwick.
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BL
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| Record Number
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892185
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| Main Entry
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Hardwick, Elizabeth.
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| Title & Author
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Herman Melville /\ Elizabeth Hardwick.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Viking,, 2000.
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| Series Statement
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Penguin lives series
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ix, 161 pages ;; 20 cm.
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| ISBN
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0670891584
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: 9780670891580
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0965004624
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| Notes
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"A Lipper/Viking book."
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Includes bibliographical references (page 161).
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| Contents
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Whaling -- New York -- Redburn -- Typee -- Elizabeth -- Omoo, Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- Family, Pierre, "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- Marriage, The Confidence-Man -- Hawthorne -- Billy Budd -- Death -- Afterword -- Bibliography.
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| Abstract
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The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, & the challenging shape of his life, a story of the creative history of an extraordinary American genius." Hardwick's superb critical interpretation & award-winning novelistic flair reveal a former whaleship deck hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. Later, a self-described "thought-diver" into "the truth of the human heart" Melville harbored a bitterness that knew no bounds when that same public failed to embrace his masterwork, Moby-Dick. Invaluable for enthusiasts of American literature, Herman Melville is itself a masterpiece of critical commentary in the tradition of D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature.
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| Subject
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891.
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Melville, Herman,(1819-1891)
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891.
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| Subject
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Novelists, American-- 19th century, Biography.
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American novelists, Biography.
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Novelists, American.
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Romanciers américains-- 19e siècle.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.3
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B
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| LC Classification
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PS2386.H34 2000
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B M5313h
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18.06bcl
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