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Hershel Parker
This two-volume project constitutes the most comprehensive biography of Melville ever published. Hershel Parker reveals with extraordinary precision the twisting turns and turmoil of Melville’s life, from his Manhattan boyhood…
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Herman Melville
This edition of Moby-Dick , released in honour of the book’s 150th anniversary, is the authoritative text of one of the world’s great adventure stories. A crew of whalers set…
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An unprecedented single-volume edition of one of America’s greatest poets, released to celebrate his bicentennial.
This volume reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville’s writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891.
From the foreword to the selected bibliography this is the most up-to-date and comprehensive documentary source for the study of Moby-Dick.
Features the text of The Confidence-Man . This second edition features explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. Contemporary reviews, biographical overviews, sources, backgrounds, and criticism are included.