The Passages of Herman Melville (ePub)
1841. A young Herman Melville is yet to write Moby Dick. He sets out on a voyage aboard a whaling...
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1841. A young Herman Melville is yet to write Moby Dick. He sets out on a voyage aboard a whaling ship. What happens on that trip will give him enough material for a lifetime of writing.
But what of the dark things Melville encounters on his journey, and the illicit relationships he embarks upon that are to torment him once he returns home to his wife Lizzie? All is revealed as Jay Parini lifts the lid on one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century . . .
Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College, Vermont. His six novels also include Benjamins Crossing and The Apprentice Lover. His volumes of poetry include The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems. In addition to biographies of John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner, he has written a volume of essays on literature and politics, as well as The Art of Teaching. He edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications.
- Autor: Jay Parini
- 2011, 464 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Canongate Books Ltd.
- ISBN-10: 0857860399
- ISBN-13: 9780857860392
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.01.2011
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