Melville
a novel
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Author
Contributions
- Eprile, Paul, translator - Contributor
- White, Edmund, 1940- writer of introduction - Contributor
Publication
2017 - New York Review Books, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
27,000 words, Guess
Page Count
108 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101681371375
- ISBN-139781681371375
- Library of Congress Control Number2017008613
- OCLC Control Number966899939
- Better World Books9781681371375
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL26939115M
Classifications
- DDC843/.912
- LCCPQ2613.I57 P6513 2017
- LCCPQ2613.I57P6513 2017
Description
"In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel's challenge--to express man's fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essai, Melville: A Novel--part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects
Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
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