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Herman Melville was born into a family that in the fledgling republic had lost both money and status. Toughened at sea as a young man, he returned home to chronicle the deepest crises of his time while forever shaping our literature with Moby-Dick, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd.
Delbanco traces Melville’s growth from the bawdy storytelling of Typee through the spiritual preoccupations building up to Moby-Dick, and the profound disillusionment of later works. He uncovers autobiographical traces throughout Melville’s writing, shows the relentless financial pressure and declining critical and popular esteem that plagued his career, and, above all, illuminate the stunning achievements of his oeuvre. Finally we understand how Melville, more than any other American writer, has captured the popular imagination.
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'A thrillingly intimate psycological portrait of a tormented
genius' -- Observer
'Andrew Delbanco sheds fascinating light on Melville's sometimes
moody personality' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Delbanco does a sterling job of reviving the world Melville knew,
as well as sensitively interpreting his fiction.'
-- Sunday Herald
'Sensitive and full of insights, this thorough, measured and
mature biography is as good as it gets' -- The Times
'The prose is polished...never pretentious and often
elegant...with this book, melville has found a worthy biographer at last' -- The Times
'This is a convincing and intelligent rendering of a writer "as
vast and contradictory as America itself" ΄ -- Daily Telegraph
'a considered and comprehensive survey, one that shows him to be
an attentive reader as well as an excellent critic.'
-- Observer
`Joyously readable... a supreme account of [Melville] and his
work... a compelling tale of a man brilliantly out of step'
-- Herald
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genius' -- Observer
'Andrew Delbanco sheds fascinating light on Melville's sometimes
moody personality' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Delbanco does a sterling job of reviving the world Melville knew,
as well as sensitively interpreting his fiction.'
-- Sunday Herald
'Sensitive and full of insights, this thorough, measured and
mature biography is as good as it gets' -- The Times
'The prose is polished...never pretentious and often
elegant...with this book, melville has found a worthy biographer at last' -- The Times
'This is a convincing and intelligent rendering of a writer "as
vast and contradictory as America itself" ΄ -- Daily Telegraph
'a considered and comprehensive survey, one that shows him to be
an attentive reader as well as an excellent critic.'
-- Observer
`Joyously readable... a supreme account of [Melville] and his
work... a compelling tale of a man brilliantly out of step'
-- Herald
With unparalleled historical and critical perspective, Delbanco gives us a commanding biography and a riveting potrait of a nation.
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0330371088
- ISBN 13 9780330371087
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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