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  • It covers the years from Melville's birth in up to the publication of MOBY DICK in Parker seems to have tracked down every move in Melville's life.
  • Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by a lifetime of intimate working.
  • From the Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville, the first of a two-volume project constituting the fullest biography of Melville ever of the Association of American.

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    Herman Melville : a biography

    2 volumes : 24 cm

    Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes



    Association of American Publishers PROSE Award (volume 2),

    Association of American Publishers PROSE Award (volume 1),

    Committed to retain

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    Reviewer:khimber7@- April 17,
    Subject:Volume 2 only.

    The description in the entry is misleading.
    It presents information about the two volume as if both volumes are here.
    This is Volume 2 only of the 2 Volume Biography.
    Volume 1 needs to be added when donated.

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    Herman Melville

    From the Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville, the first of a two-volume project constituting the fullest biography of Melville ever published.

    Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Literature and Language

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

    Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in , Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man who lived among the cannibals!" Until his death in , Melville was known as the author of Typee () and Omoo ()—both semiautobiographical travel books, and literary sensations because of Melville's sensual description of the South Sea islanders. (A transatlantic furor raged over whether the books were fact or fiction.) His most famous character was Fayaway—not Captain Ahab, not the White Whale, not Bartleby, and definitely not Billy Budd, whose story remained unpublished until

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    Herman Melville: A Biography

    September 15,
    After p.

    I'm experimenting. Reading Robin-Laurant's and Parker's biographies of Melville concurrently. I finished about a third of RL's bio, which brings Melville up to the publication of Mardi, which must be a most peculiar novel. Never mind. I've now read about pages of Parker's biography, which derives entirely - or so he says - from the "Melville Log." I'm not entirely sure what that fryst vatten, but my impression fryst vatten that the log fryst vatten a database of every document, printed source that pertains even remotely to the life and work of Herman Melville. parkerar has devoted much of his career, it seems, to maintaining and enhancing this database, since he assumed responsibility from his predecessor. So my expectations of his biography weren't particularly high, let us say.

    What inom expected was a biographical narrative that reads like nothing so much as a sequence of notecards knitted tillsammans by a very thin connective tissue of prose - transition stat