Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Autor de Moby Dick
Sobre El Autor
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young mostrar más Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891
Series
Obras de Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the… (1849) 571 copias
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd (1984) 537 copias
Israel Potter : [sus cincuenta años de exilio] / Herman Melville ; edición de Manuel Broncano ; traducción de Manuel… (1950) 271 copias
Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick (graphic adaptation by Bill Sienkiewicz) (1990) — Original Author — 110 copias
Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors… (2019) 90 copias
Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd and Other Writings (Library of America College Editions) (2000) 84 copias
Selected writings of Herman Melville: complete short stories, Typee [and] Billy Budd, foretopman (1952) 79 copias
Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Moby-Dick, White-Jacket, Israel Potter & Redburn (1928) 40 copias
Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (1987) 26 copias
Shorter Novels of Herman Melville, Benitoo Cereno, Bertley the Scrivener, The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, Billy… (1942) 18 copias
Grolier Classics: Moby Dick/Life of Samuel Johnson/The Social Contract, The Odyssey (1955) 16 copias
The works of Herman Melville. v. 13. Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver. 16 copias
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville, Vol. 6) (1988) 13 copias
Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : An Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic (2002) 13 copias
Tre scene da Moby Dick tradotte e commentate da Alessandro Baricco. testo inglese a fronte (2009) 11 copias
Moby Dick or the Whale introduction by Clifton Fadiman illustrated by Boardman Robinson (1943) 9 copias
Moby Dick (Short Classics) 8 copias
Norfolk Isle & the Chola widow 7 copias
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings: The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 13 (2017) 6 copias
The letters of Herman Melville 6 copias
Reading & Training : Herman Melville : Moby Dick [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 5 copias
Die Reisetagebücher: Reise von New York nach London 1849 / Reise ins Heilige Land 1856/57 / Reise an Bord des… (2001) 4 copias
The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of… (2011) 4 copias
Herman Melville: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 3 copias
Herman Melville: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1938) 3 copias
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems 3 copias
Herman Melville's MOBY DICK Leather Bound Book - Classic Books - Collectible Books #6520-017 (1977) 3 copias
Putnam's monthly 3 copias
Moby Dick 2 copias
Short Fiction 2 copias
Ficção curta completa 2 copias
El jugador 2 copias
El vendedor de pararrayos 2 copias
Moby Dick 2 copias
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville (2005-12-19) (1866) 2 copias
The Indispensable Melville 2 copias
Melville on Melville 2 copias
O meu primeiro Moby Dick 2 copias
MOBY DICK Illustrated 2 copias
Ahab, der Kapitän 2 copias
The Town Ho´s Story (1851) 2 copias
La mesa de madera de manzano / El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas (2013) 2 copias
De betoverde eilanden / Bartleby 2 copias
The Tartarus of Maids (Short Story) 2 copias
A Ilíada e a Guerra de Tróia 2 copias
Die große Kunst, die Wahrheit zu sagen. Von Walen, Dichtern und anderen Herrlichkeiten (2005) 2 copias
Best of Melville: Moby-Dick D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick Typee The Piazza Tales (The Piazza Bartleby Benito… (2013) 2 copias
Melville - Le cento pagine più belle 2 copias
Obras completas, 3 vols. 2 copias
Modydick 2 copias
Bartleby 1 copia
Annales 1 copia
Moby Dick (two chapters) 1 copia
TYPPE 1 copia
Moby Dick Vol.2 1 copia
Oszust 1 copia
Bartleby, the Scrivener 1 copia
MOBY DICK 2 1 copia
Мобі Дік (Ukrainian Edition) 1 copia
PACHUCHE BET 1 copia
Covek od poverenja 1 copia
Moby Dick'1 1 copia
אוסף סיפורי ים ונהר אחד — Autor — 1 copia
Tulák po ostrovech 1 copia
Billy Budd & Benito Cereno, (Leather-bound Collector's edition, paintings by Robert Shore), hc, 2004 1 copia
Billy Budd 1 copia
Art 1 copia
Benito Cereno 1 copia
Moby Dick 1 copia
Billy Budd and Other Tales 1 copia
MOBY DICK 1 1 copia
Moby Dick (eNewton Classici) 1 copia
“The Martyr” 1 copia
Moby-Dick of The Whale 1 copia
Benito Centeno 1 copia
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (2016) 1 copia
The 'Gees 1 copia
MOBY DICK.TRADUCTION DE L'AMERICAIN PAR HENRIETTE GUEX-ROLLE.CHRONOLOGIE ET PREFACE PAR ROBERT SILHOL. (1970) 1 copia
Jimmy Rose 1 copia
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The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville: Benito Cereno - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Bartleby the Scrivener - The Encantadas (1928) 1 copia
Relatos de Hawthorne y Melville 1 copia
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The New and Definitive Text, Edited from an Analysis and Independent… (1963) 1 copia
The complete stories 1 copia
Profili di donne 1 copia
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 2 1 copia
Ca Voi Trang 1 copia
The Plague Ship. (short story) 1 copia
ම්ලේච්ඡයන් අතර සිවු මසක් 1 copia
Moby Dick 1 copia
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural 1 copia
Izrael Potter 1 copia
Las estatuas de Roma 2010 1 copia
Čovek od poverenja 1 copia
Moby Dick "Moby Dick" 1 copia
Cetologia 1 copia
Cocorico et autres contres 1 copia
Moby-Dick, etc 1 copia
El escribiente y otros relatos 1 copia
Snowflakes (Annotated) 1 copia
Le Campanile 1 copia
Short novels 1 copia
The Man-of-War Hawk [poem] 1 copia
Modern Masquerade 1 copia
Poesie (testo inglese a fronte) 1 copia
Moby Dick Big Read (Audiobook) 1 copia
Shorter Novels 1 copia
MOBY DICK, RAGAZZINI 1 copia
Works 16 vols 1 copia
Complete Stories 1 copia
mpilly mpant kai alles istories 1 copia
Four novels 1 copia
Four Great Novels by Herman Melville, (Complete and Unabridged). Including Moby Dick, Typee, a Romance of the South… (2013) 1 copia
The Birth-Mark (Annotated) 1 copia
La Charge de la Baleine Blanche 1 copia
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. The Fiddler. Jimmy Rose / Τρεις απόκληροι :… (2010) 1 copia
Moby Dick [Audible] 1 copia
Raj ľudožrútov 1 copia
Hooked on Phonics: Moby Dick 1 copia
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 1 copia
Billy Budd, and other prose pieces; (The works of Herman Melville. Standard edition. vol. XIII) 1 copia
10 Books by Melville 1 copia
Erzählungen. 1 copia
Works of Herman Melville. Moby Dick, Omoo, Billy Budd, Sailor, The Piazza Tales & more (Mobi Collected Works) (2007) 1 copia
Moby Dick-Junior Classics 1 copia
Poesie scelte (in Opere scelte) 1 copia
Moby Dick Libro terzo 1 copia
Moby Dick, etc. [Abridged.] 1 copia
"Shiloh" 1 copia
Billy Bud and Six Other Tales 1 copia
Contos 1 copia
Authentic Anecdotes of Old Zack 1 copia
Reisefresken dreier Brüder: Dichter, Maler, Müssiggänger: Tagebuch einer Reise nach Europa und in die… (1991) 1 copia
Bartleby. Erzählungen. Aus dem Englischen von Marianne Graefe u.a. Mit einem Nachwort von Karl-Heinz… (1981) 1 copia
Abenteuer in der Südsee: Taipi Omoo: Ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben (German Edition) (2014) 1 copia
Má první plavba 1 copia
Las Islas Encantadas y bartleby 1 copia
Moby Dick - vol. 26 1 copia
Fives Tales 1 copia
Moby Dick 35/22N 1 copia
Paraiso de canibais 1 copia
Illustrated Classics Moby Dick 1 copia
Redburn, Israel Potter und sämtliche Erzählungen, Nachwort, Erläuterungen und aus dem Amerikanischen von… (1967) 1 copia
Cojocelul alb 1 copia
Billy Budd & Piazza Tales - Herman Melville - The Franklin Library - Alan Price Drawings - Editors Notes (1982) 1 copia
A Thought on Book-Binding 1 copia
Moby Dick . Volumen II 1 copia
Moby Dick . Volumen I 1 copia
Moby Dick, EDCON abridged 1 copia
Obras 1 copia
Billy in the darbies: A facsimile from the manuscript of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor : printed as a… (1991) 1 copia
Masa din lemn de mar 1 copia
Complete Works of Herman Melville "American Novelist, Short Story Writer and Poet from the Renaissance Period"! 19… (2016) 1 copia
An Imposition of Whales 1 copia
Graphic Classic #6: Moby Dick 1 copia
Maldive Shark 1 copia
Illustrierte Klassiker : Die spannendsten Geschichten der Weltliteratur : Nr. 37 : Moby Dick 1 copia
Redburn ou sa premiere croisiere 1 copia
Moby Dick eller Den vita valen 2 1 copia
Fragments from a Writing Desk 1 copia
Uncollected Poems 1 copia
El embaucador 1 copia
Melville. opere scelte 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Melville, Herman
- Nombre legal
- Melville, Herman
- Otros nombres
- Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1819-08-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1891-09-28
- Lugar de sepultura
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County, New York, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cardiovascular disease
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (mostrar todos 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA - Educación
- New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838) - Ocupaciones
- bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (mostrar todos 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840) - Relaciones
- Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend) - Biografía breve
- Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.
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