Overview :Herman Melville is hailed as one of the greats--if not the greatest--of American literature. Born in New York in 1819, he first achieved rec... Read More
Overview :Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering... Read More
Overview :Herman Melville is one of the most challenging authors of American literature. Known primarily as the author of Moby-Dick, he wrote several ... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :While best known for such novels as his monumental Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an extraordinarily gifted poet. This is the most comp... Read More
Overview :A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the gr... Read More
Overview :Unlike his fiction, which has been popular and often reprinted, Melville's poetry remains obscure. The last "collected poems" appeared in 19... Read More
Overview :Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his ... Read More
Overview :Melville's InspirationThe Berkshires have long attracted artists and writers, drawn to the mountains, rivers, forests and lakes of western M... Read More
Overview :Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and... Read More
Overview :In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work t... Read More