Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose (LOA #24): 3 (Library of America Herman Melville Edition) - Hardcover

Melville, Herman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0940450240 ISBN 13: 9780940450240

Verlag: Library of America, 1985

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21 cm. 1478 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Idioma Inglés. [notes and selection by Harrison Hayford]. [Prose ][Piazza tales ][Confidence man, his masquerade ][The confidence man, his masquerade ][Uncollected prose ][Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative) ][Pierre. ]. The Library of America. Includes: Melville, Herman 1819-1891. Israel Potter. Israel Potter / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Piazza tales / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Confidence man / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Billy Budd, sailor / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Herman Melville. [Selections. 1984 ][Israel Potter. ][The piazza tales. ][The confidence man. ][Billy Budd, sailor. ][Pierre, Israel Potter, The confidence-man, Tales & Billy Budd. The Library of America 24. Spine title: Pierre, Israel Potter, The confidence-man, Tales & Billy Budd. "Harrison Hayford wrote the notes for this volume"--Prel. p. [iii]. Bibliographic references: p. 1442-1449. Includes: Pierre, or, The ambiguities. Pierre or, the Ambiguities -- Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile -- The piazza tales -- The confidence-man : his masquerade -- Uncollected prose -- Billy budd, sailor : an inside narrative .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0940450240

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Reseña del editor:

Essays and stories accompany novels about a family secret, a Revolutionary War veteran, and a swindler

Biografía del autor:

Herman Melville (1819-1891) sailed as an ordinary seaman in the Pacific as a young man, turning these experiences into a series of romances that launched his literary career. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts, and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick. Literary success soon faded, his complexity increasingly alienating readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and unknown until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

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• Verlag: Library of America
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0940450240
• ISBN 13: 9780940450240
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1478