Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851
Hershel Parker
The first of a two-volume project, this book by a lifelong scholar of Melville's life, works, and milieu pinpoints the facts of Melville's life with great accuracy and completeness. Melville here appears amid the all-too-human hopes and anxieties that inspired and ensnared him during his early career, when he passed from the status of America's first literary symbol to that of a still-young man who dared to write Shakespearean prose.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Year
- 1996
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Herman Melville's lifeAmerican literary history19th-century authorship
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(1997)
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