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1. Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891 by Jay Leyda | |
Hardcover:
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(1951)
Asin: B000OKBLI6 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
2. DICKENS And MELVILLE In THEIR TIME. by Charles.1812 - 1870].[Melville, Herman.1819 - 1891].Solomon, Pearl Chesler. [Dickens | |
Hardcover:
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(1975)
Asin: B000MYU4GY Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
3. The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891 | |
Hardcover:
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(1969-06)
list price: US$75.00 Isbn: 0877520631 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
4. The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville 1819-1891, 2 Volumes by Jay Leyda | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1951)
Asin: B000IXXPRO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
5. Bartleby, the ScrivenerA Story of Wall-Street by Herman, 1819-1891 Melville | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-02-01)
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6. Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman, 1819-1891 Melville | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2005-05-01)
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7. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) by Herman, 1819-1891 Melville | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-10-12)
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8. MOBY DICK; Or, The Whale. With an Introduction by Clifton Fadiman. by Herman (1819 - 1891). Melville | |
Hardcover:
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(1977)
Asin: B000NYIC8U Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
9. John Marr and Other Poems by Herman, 1819-1891 Melville | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-07-07)
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10. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) by Herman, 1819-1891 Melville | |
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(2004-10-12)
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11. Israel Potter by Herman, 1819-1891 Melville | |
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(2005-03-20)
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A charming (if over-the-top) spoof of Revolutionary heroics
The least known and most humorous of Melville's works. |
12. The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891. 2 volumes. by Jay. Melville] Leyda | |
Paperback:
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(1951)
Asin: B000WW9FAC Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
13. The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville 1819-1891 (Two Volumes) by Herman]; Leyda, Jay [Melville | |
Hardcover:
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(1951)
Asin: B000JLBHZW Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
14. White Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War by Herman (1819-1891) Melville | |
Paperback:
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(1991)
Asin: B000OK8MOW Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
15. Moby Dick by Herman, 1819-1891. Melville | |
Hardcover:
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(1990)
Isbn: 999248702X Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (314)
A magnificent book
Review of Kindle version, not of Melvilles's masterpiece
The Book's reputation outweighs its value...
Not an "easy" read, but I loved it
a bit drawn out but amazing prose |
16. HERMAN MELVILLE. REDBURN, WHITE-JACKET, MOBY-DICK: 1819-1891 by HERMAN MELVILLE | |
Hardcover: 1436
Pages
(1983)
Asin: B000IN1BDO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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17. Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Herman Melville | |
Hardcover: 528
Pages
(1997-10-15)
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a treasure |
18. Selected Poems (Melville, Herman) (Penguin Classics) by HermanMelville, RobertFaggen | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2006-06-27)
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19. Herman Melville: A Biography (Herman Melville) by Hershel Parker | |
Hardcover: 1056
Pages
(2002-05-08)
list price: US$50.00 -- used & new: US$26.85 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0801868920 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville--a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize--closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. "Take it all in all," Parker concluded, "this was the happiest day of Melville's life." Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891 chronicles Melville's life in rich detail, from this ecstatic moment to his death, in obscurity, forty years later. Parker describes the malignity of reviewers and sheer bad luck that doomed Moby-Dick to failure (and its author to prolonged indebtedness), the savage reviews he received for his next book Pierre, and his inability to have the novel The Isle of the Cross -- now lost -- published at all. Melville turned to magazine fiction, writing the now-classic "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno," and produced a final novel, The Confidence Man, a mordant satire of American optimism. Over his last three decades, while working as a customs inspector in Manhattan, Melville painstakingly remade himself as a poet, crafting the centennial epic Clarel, in which he sorted out his complex feelings for Hawthorne, and the masterful story "Billy Budd," originally written as a prose headnote to an unfinished poem. Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. The concluding volume of Herman Melville: A Biography confirms Hershel Parker's position as the world's leading Melville scholar, demonstrating his unrivaled biographical, literary, and historical imagination and providing a rich new portrait of a great--and profoundly American -- artist. From reviews of the first volume: "Unquestionably the most searching biography ever written on Herman Melville." -- Philip Weiss, New York Times Magazine "A magnificent achievement... Hershel Parker's magnum opus is a magisterial work of retrieval and unflagging scholarship." -- Harold Beaver, Times Literary Supplement "An awesome achievement, indispensable for all serious Melvillians, with the vividness of a great Victorian novel and the precision of the finest historical scholarship." -- Robert Faggen, Los Angeles Times Book Review Customer Reviews (3)
Stoic endurance and masterful control Through a careful accounting of time and travels, many puzzles are brought into clearer light. Volume Two begins with the puzzle of The Whale's reception -- Melville may never have learned of the broad praise for The Whale in England, despite the disconcerting omission of the book's final chapter by the publisher. Next, the puzzle of Pierre's career as a Young Author -- prompted by Evert Duykinck's evident betrayal as much as a devaluation of his earning potential by the Harpers, Melville interpolated a satirical diabtribe into the innovative psychological romance, Pierre. We discover lost works -- Melville developed at least three major works that were never published: Isle of the Cross (rejected), the Tortoise Hunters (incomplete or discarded), and a volume of poems in 1860 (rejected). We find what happened between his last magazine publication and the start of the Civil War: we are given a clear picture of Melville's three winters on the lecture circuit, during which he began a dedicated effort to convert from prose to poetry. Finally, we discover Melville the poet -- while holding down a low-paid job to support his family, Melville stoically endures a long period of discouraging personal setbacks during which he improves his mastery of metrical form through dedicated study and artful discernment. His creative mind is constantly at work, although his energies are strained by competing demands on his attention. With Clarel, Melville demonstrates a masterful control of theme, form, and allusion, and with John Marr and Timoleon, we meet a poet who innovated constantly, re-working and improving his stylistic experiments over many years. Melville's mid-life challenges are of the sort that most humans face, complicated by an uncertain career, the death of two sons, and an awkward estrangement from his wife (temporary) and daughters (permanent?). He outlives most of his close relatives and friends, people he loved and who loved him, and on whom he relied for decades. Melville's natural tendency toward a self-contained privacy leads him toward a stoical reclusiveness, although he remains actively engaged with the world throughout his restless wanderings, both physical and philosophical. The biography concludes on an upward note; late in life, Melville learns by degrees of a dedicated following in England, while some of his best work is still in manuscript form, waiting to be printed some thirty years after his death. The great pleasure of reading Parker is the way he interpolates explanations as an aid to the reader's assessment, scrupulously avoiding any forced conclusions based on ambiguous evidence. With Parker, the author is in control of the presentation, but we are allowed to apply our own critical thought toward the evidence. No conclusions are forced on us, and we encounter few intrusions by the biographer. To my mind, this is an ideal biography.
Tedious Beyond Belief
a baby whale trying to get out of this behemoth |
20. Herman Melville's Billy Budd by Herman Melville | |
Paperback: 85
Pages
(1985-05)
list price: US$3.95 -- used & new: US$58.47 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 067100686X Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Short and boring |
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