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Tells the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation.
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"The most studied and admired of Melville's works except for Moby-Dick." --John Updike
"[A] late-life masterpiece." --The New York Review of Books
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"[A] late-life masterpiece." --The New York Review of Books
Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0140624511
- ISBN 13 9780140624519
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages88
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