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- Herman Melville, 1851-1891 Vol. 2:A Biography
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- A Biography
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- Johns Hopkins University Press
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- Literary Criticism
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- 14/10/2005
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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 toprevious 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
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Herman Melville, 1851-1891 Vol. 2:A Biography
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Perfect
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English
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2005
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1056 Pages
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Reviews
The massive biography of Melville by Hershel Parker is an astonishing achievement. In two volumes of some two thousand large and tightly printed pages, Parker has overcome many of the obstacles that have stood, until now, in the way of a full-scale life... Parker has given every student of Melville a great gift--an incomparable sourcebook that will be plundered for years... This [the second volume] is a more powerful book than its predecessor--and sometimes it is downright gripping... An enormously illuminating account of... the context in which Herman Melville lived and worked... One is grateful for Parker's 'more than several pages.'., "One of the most complete and staggeringly researched biographies of an American novelist ever published; it will certainly remain the undisputed standard Melville biography for many years to come... Parker's book does a fine job of bringing Melville's life up to date in the light of recent scholarship, as well as reinvigorating modern interest in a true American original." -- Scott Bradfield, Times Higher Education Supplement, Such perseverance and painstaking historical detail surely make this biography the last word on Melville... For those who can't get enough of Melville -- and they are a sizeable minority -- this truly monumental achievement is the perfect book., Melville's is a familiar story, but never before has it been told in such detailed complexity. An author praised initially for all the wrong reasons (Typee is far more than the adventure story and travel book it was taken to be), and then rejected for still worse ones, now emerges with a new clarity... His was, indeed, a posthumous life, but, thanks to Hershel Parker, one now more completely revealed in its personal triumphs and disasters., Parker has constructed from his sources a painstaking chronology of Melville's life, practically on a day-by-day basis. To this, he adds a passion for Melville-both the brilliant works and the beleaguered man. And there are flashes of humor... Not all biographical subjects merit this level of attention. There's no disputing that Melville, one of America's greatest writers, does. Clearly, this monumental biography will prove indispensable to scholars and serious students of Melville. It contains much that may prove fascinating to the general reader as well., Parker's impressive scholarship and a vigorous analysis are cause for celebration. Too often reviewers misuse the word 'definitive'; not so in this case. The meticulous Parker has practically reconstructed Melville's DNA and in doing so has rendered American literature a signal service. Parker recounts Melville's chronic bad luck, epic writing binges, failed lectures, surreal visions and troubled marriage. It's a saga of genius refusing to be derailed. But Parker unearths a plethora of new material, including previously unknown family correspondence and even the title and plot of Melville's long-lost novel, The Isle of the Cross., The massive biography of Melville by Hershel Parker is an astonishing achievement. In two volumes of some two thousand large and tightly printed pages, Parker has overcome many of the obstacles that have stood, until now, in the way of a full-scale life... Parker has given every student of Melville a great gift-an incomparable sourcebook that will be plundered for years... This [the second volume] is a more powerful book than its predecessor-and sometimes it is downright gripping... An enormously illuminating account of... the context in which Herman Melville lived and worked... One is grateful for Parker's 'more than several pages.'., "Unquestionably the most searching biography ever written on Herman Melville." -- Philip Weiss, New York Times Magazine, "Professor Parker... is a sound, sensible biographer and so thorough that he will probably be accused of monumentality -- translation: unnecessary detail, such as which cousins attended whose wedding. The charge is not deserved. The detail matters... Professor Parker has had a vast amount of material to work with and has made good use of it. His life of Melville, which hurried readers may find over-inclusive, becomes a history of manners, amusements, business methods, politics, American whaling and international maneuverings in the South Seas, literary cliques, publishing practices, copyright law, and the erratic eccentricities of reviewers. When possible -- and it frequently is -- such information is presented with sly, deadpan humor. Melville emerges from this background as a man living and working in a real world full of real, amusing, brilliant, and sometimes rascally people. Well-chosen quotations establish that Melville himself was a charmer, a grand yarn-spinner, a wild driver, and a man who could describe a winter gale in the Berkshires as indicating 'too much sail on the house' and a need to 'go on the roof & rig in the chimney.' He was also, of course, a serious writer, steadily expanding his range and his thinking, and on the way to becoming the great writer who deserves all of Professor Parker's admirable work and all of a reader's attention." -- Phoebe-Lou Adams, Atlantic Monthly, "Magisterial is the only word that adequately describes Hershel Parker's huge 940-page biography of Herman Melville... This detailed first installment incorporates many recently discovered manuscripts that allow the author to expand some events in Melville's life and offer several new episodes. Mr. Parker's investigation of Melville's complicated personality, his explanation of Melville's development as an artist, and his account of Melville's time are so complete that it would be impossible even to suggest the themes that run through this closely printed book. Certain to become the standard, and probably a classic." -- Lee Milazzo, Dallas Morning News, Parker's impressive scholarship and a vigorous analysis are cause for celebration. Too often reviewers misuse the word 'definitive'; not so in this case. The meticulous Parker has practically reconstructed Melville's DNA and in doing so has rendered American literature a signal service. Parker recounts Melville's chronic bad luck, epic writing binges, failed lectures, surreal visions and troubled marriage. It's a saga of genius refusing to be derailed. But Parker unearths a plethora of new material, including previously unknown family correspondence and even the title and plot of Melville's long-lost novel, The Isle of the Cross ., "Parker's impressive scholarship and a vigorous analysis are cause for celebration. Too often reviewers misuse the word 'definitive'; not so in this case. The meticulous Parker has practically reconstructed Melville's DNA and in doing so has rendered American literature a signal service. Parker recounts Melville's chronic bad luck, epic writing binges, failed lectures, surreal visions and troubled marriage. It's a saga of genius refusing to be derailed. But Parker unearths a plethora of new material, including previously unknown family correspondence and even the title and plot of Melville's long-lost novel, The Isle of the Cross."--Douglas Brinkley, Los Angeles Times Book Review, The publication of the second volume of Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville brings to a close an enterprise of archival and critical scholarship that has lasted forty years--nearly as long as Melville's writing career., Parker has constructed from his sources a painstaking chronology of Melville's life, practically on a day-by-day basis. To this, he adds a passion for Melville--both the brilliant works and the beleaguered man. And there are flashes of humor... Not all biographical subjects merit this level of attention. There's no disputing that Melville, one of America's greatest writers, does. Clearly, this monumental biography will prove indispensable to scholars and serious students of Melville. It contains much that may prove fascinating to the general reader as well., The misery of [Melville's later] years is underscored by the most authoritative account of them ever: Herman Melville, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891, by Hershel Parker. The book is 1,000 pages long, a generous monument of research that lovingly details Melville's reading and his family's activities, and seeks to uplift his poetry., Hershel Parker set out to write the biography to end all biographies of Herman Melville, a book in which everything that could be known about the writer would be pieced out and put on record... Parker's first volume ends with Melville relishing the fruit of his impetuousness; the second shows him learning its price... Parker tells this story with a thoroughness that is scarcely to be believed... On tour de force is his reconstruction of the composition of Pierre... Equally interesting are Parker's surmises about works Melville never published that did not survive... Parker's other achievement is his reconstruction of Melville's family life... Parker's book has much to teach. In addition to the many episodes that he fills in or sets straight, he reminds us just how problematic writing was for Melville, how shrouded it was in personal risk and cost -- and how stubbornly he kept at this work, even late in life, when he did it almost wholly in private... Parker also deserves credit for filling in the darker half of Melville's life without making it a melodrama of misunderstood genius... What we cannot know, but the main thing this book makes us wonder, is what different life Melville might have led and what different work he might have done if his talents had met with a different reception., "Monumental and meticulous, anchored in three decades of exhaustive research... Parker details how Melville lived and behaved as a complex human being, by turns flawed and brilliant, restless and focused... Parker's benchmark biography is also fascinating social history... The high point of Parker's first volume is his reconstruction of the Berkshire events of 1850-1851: Melville's meeting with Hawthorne, his impulsive buying of the 160-acre Brewster farm in Pittsfield, and the powerful letters and impressions shared by Melville and Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne... Parker discovered that the two authors had a private dinner at a Lenox hotel, where Melville proudly handed his mentor a personal copy of the new novel, famously dedicated to Hawthorne's American 'genius.' It was the happiest event in Melville's life -- and one of the most meaningful moments in American literary history. Parker makes it ours." -- R. Bruce Bickley, Jr., American Literature, Through prodigious archival research, Parker creates a compelling narrative out of the last forty years of Melville's life, as he struggled with the spectre of failure... It is unlikely that a more searching or truthful biography of Melville will appear in the foreseeable future; the two volumes Parker has now published on one of America's finest writers are not only the fullest account we have of him but, quite probably, the final word., "ÝParker's¨ exhaustive research yields a wealth of fresh information about Melville's life... We see in rich detail the comings and goings of Melville and his family, the vagaries of his literary reputation, and his shifting moods." -- David S. Reynolds, Journal of American History, "Wonderful... Parker's study is 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, "With immense sympathy, Parker relates how Melville's intellectual growth resulted in his writing novels that were increasingly obscure to his ever-diminishing readership, and how, in his early 30s, as a husband and a father of four, his repeated failures curdled his spirit and caused him to withdraw into himself... Parker's telling makes a Greek tragedy of Melville's life after Moby-Dick, which included the suicide of his son Malcolm and the death of his young son Stanwix, his thankless work at the New York Custom House, his victimization at the hands of the Harper brothers, and his sinking into obscurity before his death... This definitive work, together with the first volume, is essential for every library."-- Library Journal (starred review), With immense sympathy, Parker relates how Melville's intellectual growth resulted in his writing novels that were increasingly obscure to his ever-diminishing readership, and how, in his early 30s, as a husband and a father of four, his repeated failures curdled his spirit and caused him to withdraw into himself... Parker's telling makes a Greek tragedy of Melville's life after Moby-Dick , which included the suicide of his son Malcolm and the death of his young son Stanwix, his thankless work at the New York Custom House, his victimization at the hands of the Harper brothers, and his sinking into obscurity before his death... This definitive work, together with the first volume, is essential for every library., "Casts every earlier biography into shadows... Parker uses volumes of new information to give us a highly detailed, beautifully written, and moving portrait of a great writer." -- Library Journal (starred review), Hershel Parker set out to write the biography to end all biographies of Herman Melville, a book in which everything that could be known about the writer would be pieced out and put on record... Parker's first volume ends with Melville relishing the fruit of his impetuousness; the second shows him learning its price... Parker tells this story with a thoroughness that is scarcely to be believed... On tour de force is his reconstruction of the composition of Pierre ... Equally interesting are Parker's surmises about works Melville never published that did not survive... Parker's other achievement is his reconstruction of Melville's family life... Parker's book has much to teach. In addition to the many episodes that he fills in or sets straight, he reminds us just how problematic writing was for Melville, how shrouded it was in personal risk and cost--and how stubbornly he kept at this work, even late in life, when he did it almost wholly in private... Parker also deserves credit for filling in the darker half of Melville's life without making it a melodrama of misunderstood genius... What we cannot know, but the main thing this book makes us wonder, is what different life Melville might have led and what different work he might have done if his talents had met with a different reception., The publication of the second volume of Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville brings to a close an enterprise of archival and critical scholarship that has lasted forty years-nearly as long as Melville's writing career., Such perseverance and painstaking historical detail surely make this biography the last word on Melville... For those who can't get enough of Melville-and they are a sizeable minority-this truly monumental achievement is the perfect book., Such perseverance and painstaking historical detail surely make this biography the last word on Melville... For those who can't get enough of Melville--and they are a sizeable minority--this truly monumental achievement is the perfect book., ""[A] matchless two-volume monument to the author's life and work...the greatest living authority on Melville [is] Hershel Parker."", "The linking of so much material into a continually engaging narrative is a magnificent achievement... Hershel Parker's magnum opus is a magisterial work of retrieval and unflagging scholarship, whose sheer diversity of detail adds human complexity to what earlier often seemed no more than an inert chronicle. It caps all previous endeavors. Whatever new discoveries are made (and there may be some surprises yet) will have to be built on his meticulous groundwork. He not only clarifies all known facts but demythologizes the fiction." -- Harold Beaver, Times Literary Supplement, "Through prodigious archival research, Parker creates a compelling narrative out of the last forty years of Melville's life, as he struggled with the spectre of failure... It is unlikely that a more searching or truthful biography of Melville will appear in the foreseeable future; the two volumes Parker has now published on one of America's finest writers are not only the fullest account we have of him but, quite probably, the final word."--Richard Gray, Literary Review, [A] matchless two-volume monument to the author's life and work...the greatest living authority on Melville [is] Hershel Parker., "The massive biography of Melville by Hershel Parker is an astonishing achievement. In two volumes of some two thousand large and tightly printed pages, Parker has overcome many of the obstacles that have stood, until now, in the way of a full-scale life... Parker has given every student of Melville a great gift -- an incomparable sourcebook that will be plundered for years... This [the second volume] is a more powerful book than its predecessor -- and sometimes it is downright gripping... An enormously illuminating account of... the context in which Herman Melville lived and worked... One is grateful for Parker's 'more than several pages.'."--Andrew Delbanco, New Republic, Parker has constructed from his sources a painstaking chronology of Melville's life, practically on a day-by-day basis. To this, he adds a passion for Melville -- both the brilliant works and the beleaguered man. And there are flashes of humor... Not all biographical subjects merit this level of attention. There's no disputing that Melville, one of America's greatest writers, does. Clearly, this monumental biography will prove indispensable to scholars and serious students of Melville. It contains much that may prove fascinating to the general reader as well., "The misery of ÝMelville's later¨ years is underscored by the most authoritative account of them ever: Herman Melville, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891, by Hershel Parker. The book is 1,000 pages long, a generous monument of research that lovingly details Melville's reading and his family's activities, and seeks to uplift his poetry." -- Philip Weiss, New York Observer, "[Parker's] exhaustive research yields a wealth of fresh information about Melville's life... We see in rich detail the comings and goings of Melville and his family, the vagaries of his literary reputation, and his shifting moods."--David S. Reynolds, Journal of American History, "Melville's is a familiar story, but never before has it been told in such detailed complexity. An author praised initially for all the wrong reasons ( Typee is far more than the adventure story and travel book it was taken to be), and then rejected for still worse ones, now emerges with a new clarity... His was, indeed, a posthumous life, but, thanks to Hershel Parker, one now more completely revealed in its personal triumphs and disasters."--Christopher Bigsby, Times Literary Supplement, "For 40 years, Parker has been charting the seas of Melville's life, chasing down allusions and illusions... His quest yields some important discoveries... This is a biographical masterwork about a rare literary genius."--Daniel Dyer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, [Parker's] exhaustive research yields a wealth of fresh information about Melville's life... We see in rich detail the comings and goings of Melville and his family, the vagaries of his literary reputation, and his shifting moods., Parker's biography represents the ultimate achievement in Melville scholarship and offers the reader a mine of information on one of the formative American writers of the 19th century., "Hershel Parker set out to write the biography to end all biographies of Herman Melville, a book in which everything that could be known about the writer would be pieced out and put on record... Parker's first volume ends with Melville relishing the fruit of his impetuousness; the second shows him learning its price... Parker tells this story with a thoroughness that is scarcely to be believed... On tour de force is his reconstruction of the composition of Pierre... Equally interesting are Parker's surmises about works Melville never published that did not survive... Parker's other achievement is his reconstruction of Melville's family life... Parker's book has much to teach. In addition to the many episodes that he fills in or sets straight, he reminds us just how problematic writing was for Melville, how shrouded it was in personal risk and cost -- and how stubbornly he kept at this work, even late in life, when he did it almost wholly in private... Parker also deserves credit for filling in the darker half of Melville's life without making it a melodrama of misunderstood genius... What we cannot know, but the main thing this book makes us wonder, is what different life Melville might have led and what different work he might have done if his talents had met with a different reception."--Richard H. Brodhead, New York Times Book Review, The publication of the second volume of Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville brings to a close an enterprise of archival and critical scholarship that has lasted forty years -- nearly as long as Melville's writing career., "Such perseverance and painstaking historical detail surely make this biography the last word on Melville... For those who can't get enough of Melville -- and they are a sizeable minority -- this truly monumental achievement is the perfect book."-- Publishers Weekly, "The publication of the second volume of Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville brings to a close an enterprise of archival and critical scholarship that has lasted forty years--nearly as long as Melville's writing career."--Danny Karlin, London Review of Books, "The great merit of this biography is that its exhaustive research yields a wealth of fresh information about Melville's life. Parker gives us Melville at ground level." -- David S. Reynolds, Journal of American History, "Parker has constructed from his sources a painstaking chronology of Melville's life, practically on a day-by-day basis. To this, he adds a passion for Melville -- both the brilliant works and the beleaguered man. And there are flashes of humor... Not all biographical subjects merit this level of attention. There's no disputing that Melville, one of America's greatest writers, does. Clearly, this monumental biography will prove indispensable to scholars and serious students of Melville. It contains much that may prove fascinating to the general reader as well."--Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle, "The misery of [Melville's later] years is underscored by the most authoritative account of them ever: Herman Melville, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891, by Hershel Parker. The book is 1,000 pages long, a generous monument of research that lovingly details Melville's reading and his family's activities, and seeks to uplift his poetry."--Philip Weiss, New York Observer, The massive biography of Melville by Hershel Parker is an astonishing achievement. In two volumes of some two thousand large and tightly printed pages, Parker has overcome many of the obstacles that have stood, until now, in the way of a full-scale life... Parker has given every student of Melville a great gift -- an incomparable sourcebook that will be plundered for years... This [the second volume] is a more powerful book than its predecessor -- and sometimes it is downright gripping... An enormously illuminating account of... the context in which Herman Melville lived and worked... One is grateful for Parker's 'more than several pages.'., For 40 years, Parker has been charting the seas of Melville's life, chasing down allusions and illusions... His quest yields some important discoveries... This is a biographical masterwork about a rare literary genius., With immense sympathy, Parker relates how Melville's intellectual growth resulted in his writing novels that were increasingly obscure to his ever-diminishing readership, and how, in his early 30s, as a husband and a father of four, his repeated failures curdled his spirit and caused him to withdraw into himself... Parker's telling makes a Greek tragedy of Melville's life after Moby-Dick, which included the suicide of his son Malcolm and the death of his young son Stanwix, his thankless work at the New York Custom House, his victimization at the hands of the Harper brothers, and his sinking into obscurity before his death... This definitive work, together with the first volume, is essential for every library., Hershel Parker set out to write the biography to end all biographies of Herman Melville, a book in which everything that could be known about the writer would be pieced out and put on record... Parker's first volume ends with Melville relishing the fruit of his impetuousness; the second shows him learning its price... Parker tells this story with a thoroughness that is scarcely to be believed... On tour de force is his reconstruction of the composition of Pierre ... Equally interesting are Parker's surmises about works Melville never published that did not survive... Parker's other achievement is his reconstruction of Melville's family life... Parker's book has much to teach. In addition to the many episodes that he fills in or sets straight, he reminds us just how problematic writing was for Melville, how shrouded it was in personal risk and cost -- and how stubbornly he kept at this work, even late in life, when he did it almost wholly in private... Parker also deserves credit for filling in the darker half of Melville's life without making it a melodrama of misunderstood genius... What we cannot know, but the main thing this book makes us wonder, is what different life Melville might have led and what different work he might have done if his talents had met with a different reception., Hershel Parker set out to write the biography to end all biographies of Herman Melville, a book in which everything that could be known about the writer would be pieced out and put on record... Parker's first volume ends with Melville relishing the fruit of his impetuousness; the second shows him learning its price... Parker tells this story with a thoroughness that is scarcely to be believed... On tour de force is his reconstruction of the composition of Pierre ... Equally interesting are Parker's surmises about works Melville never published that did not survive... Parker's other achievement is his reconstruction of Melville's family life... Parker's book has much to teach. In addition to the many episodes that he fills in or sets straight, he reminds us just how problematic writing was for Melville, how shrouded it was in personal risk and cost-and how stubbornly he kept at this work, even late in life, when he did it almost wholly in private... Parker also deserves credit for filling in the darker half of Melville's life without making it a melodrama of misunderstood genius... What we cannot know, but the main thing this book makes us wonder, is what different life Melville might have led and what different work he might have done if his talents had met with a different reception., Melville's is a familiar story, but never before has it been told in such detailed complexity. An author praised initially for all the wrong reasons ( Typee is far more than the adventure story and travel book it was taken to be), and then rejected for still worse ones, now emerges with a new clarity... His was, indeed, a posthumous life, but, thanks to Hershel Parker, one now more completely revealed in its personal triumphs and disasters., "As this first of a projected two-volume biography makes abundantly clear, Melville's life is above all else an enthralling tale of literary genius in the act of self-creation. Hershel Parker is a scholar of notable fastidiousness, and his achievement here is to establish Herman Melville's life as one of the great literary family sagas of the nineteenth century -- a narrative at least as colorful and incident-rich as anything published by Melville himself." -- Literary Review
Table of Content
Contents: Crowned and Blindsided, November-December 1851 ""Mad Christmas"" 1851 The Kraken Version of Pierre, November-December 1851 Melville Crosses the Rubicon, January 1852 Richard Bentley: The Whale and Pierre, January-May 1852 Fool's Paradise and the Furies Unleashed, June-September 1852 The Isle of the Cross, September 1852-June 1853 The Magazinist: Idealist Turned Would-Be Stoic, July1853 -January 1854 The Shift Away from Herman and Arrowhead, January-March 1854 Tortoises and Israel Potter, 1854 ""Benito Cereno,"" Early 1855 The Confidence Man's Masquerade: Melville as National Satirist, June 1855-January 1856 Foreclosing on Friendship: Confession and Shame, February 1856-October 1856 Liverpool and the Levant, Late 1856-February 1857 Rome to Liverpool, and Home, February-April 1857 ""Statues in Rome,"" May 1857-November 1858 ""The South Seas,"" March 1858-Spring 1859 The Poet and the Last Lecture, ""Travel,"" Summer 1859-Early 1860 An Epic Poet on the Meteor, May 1860-October 1860 The Dream of Florence, A State Funeral, and War, November 1860-December 1861 A Humble Quest for an Aesthetic Credo, January-April 1862 Farewell to Arrowhead and the Overthrow of Jehu, April-December 1862 Displacements, January-June 1863 Wartime Second Honeymoon & Manhattan for Good, Summer-Fall 1863 The War Poet's Scout Toward Aldie, 1864 Two Years of War and Dubious Peace, 1865-1866 Battle-Pieces: Poet, Poems, Reviewers, 1866 Domestic Life with a ""Psychological Cerberus,"" 1867 A Snug Harbor for the Melvilles, Late 1867-1868 The Man Who had Known Hawthorne, 1869 West Street and ""Jerusalem,"" 1870 The Last Mustering of the Clan, and ""The Wilderness,"" 1871 Death, Death, and Flight to a Snug Harbor, 1872 A Family in Disarray; & ""Mar Saba,"" 1873 The New Generation and ""Bethlehem,"" 1874-1875 Clarel: Melville's Centennial Epic, 1876 ""Old Fogy"" and Imaginary Companions, 1877-1880 The Shadow at the Feasts, 1880-1885 Fragments in a Writing-Desk, 1886-1891 In and Out of the House of the Tragic Poet, 1886-1891
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
American / General
Dewey Decimal
813.3
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
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Wysyłka i obsługa
Sprzedawca nie wysyła do: Stany Zjednoczone
Lokalizacja przedmiotu:
GU14 0GT, Wielka Brytania
Wysyłka do:
Albania, Algieria, Ameryki, Andora, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua i Barbuda, Antyle Holenderskie, Arabia Saudyjska, Argentyna, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbejdżan, Azja, Bahamy, Bahrajn, Bangladesz, Barbados, Belgia, Belize, Benin, Bermudy, Bhutan, Boliwia, Botswana, Bośnia i Hercegowina, Brazylia, Brunei, Brytyjskie Wyspy Dziewicze, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bułgaria, Chile, Chiny, Chorwacja, Cypr, Czad, Czarnogóra, Czechy, Dania, Demokratyczna Republika Konga, Dominika, Dominikana, Dżibuti, Egipt, Ekwador, Erytrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Etiopia, Europa, Falklandy (Malwiny), Fidżi, Filipiny, Finlandia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grecja, Grenada, Grenlandia, Gruzja, Guam, Guernsey, Gujana, Gujana Francuska, Gwadelupa, Gwatemala, Gwinea, Gwinea Bissau, Gwinea Równikowa, Haiti, Honduras, Hongkong, Indie, Indonezja, Irak, Islandia, Izrael, Jamajka, Japonia, Jersey, Jordania, Kajmany, Kambodża, Kamerun, Katar, Kazachstan, Kenia, Kirgistan, Kiribati, Kolumbia, Komory, Kongo, Korea Południowa, Kostaryka, Kuwejt, Laos, Lesotho, Liban, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Litwa, Luksemburg, Macedonia Północna, Madagaskar, Majotta, Makau, Malawi, Malediwy, Malezja, Mali, Malta, Maroko, Martynika, Mauretania, Mauritius, Meksyk, Mikronezja, Monako, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambik, Mołdawia, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Nikaragua, Niue, Norwegia, Nowa Kaledonia, Nowa Zelandia, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua-Nowa Gwinea, Paragwaj, Peru, Polinezja Francuska, Polska, Portoryko, Portugalia, Południowa Afryka, Republika Zielonego Przylądka, Republika Środkowoafrykańska, Reunion, Rumunia, Rwanda, Sahara Zachodnia, Saint Kitts i Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre i Miquelon, Saint Vincent i Grenadyny, Salwador, Samoa Amerykańskie, Samoa Zachodnie, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seszele, Sierra Leone, Singapur, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Svalbard i Jan Mayen, Szwecja, Słowacja, Słowenia, Tadżykistan, Tajlandia, Tajwan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Trynidad i Tobago, Tunezja, Turcja, Turkmenistan, Turks i Caicos, Tuvalu, Uganda, Urugwaj, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Wallis i Futuna, Watykan, Wenezuela, Wietnam, Wybrzeże Kości Słoniowej, Wyspy Cooka, Wyspy Dziewicze (USA), Wyspy Marshalla, Wyspy Salomona, Węgry, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zjednoczone Emiraty Arabskie, Łotwa, Święta Helena
Wykluczenia:
Afganistan, Australia, Austria, Białoruś, Francja, Hiszpania, Holandia, Irlandia, Jemen, Libia, Nauru, Niemcy, Rosja, Somalia, Stany Zjednoczone, Szwajcaria, Ukraina, Wielka Brytania, Włochy
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| Zwykle wysyłam przesyłkę w ciągu 3 dni roboczych po otrzymaniu rozliczonej płatności. |
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Podatek od sprzedaży dla przedmiotu nr 394804185171
Podatek od sprzedaży dla przedmiotu nr 394804185171
Sprzedawca nalicza podatek od sprzedaży dla przedmiotów wysyłanych do następujących stanów:
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| 30 dni | Za wysyłkę zwrotną płaci kupujący |
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Opinie sprzedawców (182 314)
m***w (74)- Opinie wystawione przez kupującego.
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I never received the cd. Was given a full refund.
m***w (74)- Opinie wystawione przez kupującego.
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Never received the CD. I was given a full refund.
i***l (1217)- Opinie wystawione przez kupującego.
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Perfect, thank you.