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Foto del autor. Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891

Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891

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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 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) — biografía de Moby Dick… (más)
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Bartleby, el escribiente 2,741 copias, 95 reseñas
Billy Budd, marinero 2,538 copias, 49 reseñas
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life 2,094 copias, 38 reseñas
Billy Budd and Other Stories 1,952 copias, 14 reseñas
Moby-Dick [Norton Critical Edition] 1,209 copias, 8 reseñas
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade 1,167 copias, 13 reseñas
Billy Budd and Other Tales 938 copias, 11 reseñas
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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities 727 copias, 4 reseñas
Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby Dick 689 copias, 8 reseñas
Benito Cereno 658 copias, 25 reseñas
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Chaqueta Blanca 587 copias, 5 reseñas
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Omoo 479 copias, 8 reseñas
Benito Cereno ; Billy Budd, marinero (Autor) 255 copias, 3 reseñas
Mardi and a voyage thither 228 copias, 5 reseñas
The Piazza Tales 195 copias, 5 reseñas
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville (Autor) 162 copias, 1 reseña
The Portable Melville 151 copias, 1 reseña
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings 139 copias, 1 reseña
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Literature: The Human Experience (Contribuidor) 332 copias
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contribuidor) 273 copias, 4 reseñas
Six Great Modern Short Novels (Contribuidor) 270 copias, 2 reseñas
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The World's Greatest Short Stories (Contribuidor) 255 copias, 1 reseña
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Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (Contribuidor) 163 copias
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American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (Contribuidor) 91 copias, 2 reseñas
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200 Years of Great American Short Stories (Contribuidor) 64 copias, 1 reseña
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Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (Contribuidor) 43 copias, 1 reseña
In Dreams Awake (Contribuidor) 40 copias
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American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (Contribuidor, algunas ediciones) 25 copias
Eight Short Novels (Contribuidor) 22 copias
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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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