Herman Melville

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Herman Melville - United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891)

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Allan Melville, great-grandfather of Herman Melville, removed from Scotland to America in 1748, and established himself as a merchant in Boston.

Herman Melville was born in New York on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city.

On the hither side of Pittsfield sits Herman Melville, shaping out the gigantic conception of his 'White Whale,' while the gigantic shadow of Greylock looms upon him from his study window.

'I have made my first literary pilgrimage, a call upon Herman Melville,the renowned author of 'Typee,' etc.

The condition of my right hand obliges me to dictate this to my son; but painful as it is to me to hold a pen, I cannot suffer this letter to reach the hands of a man of so admirable genitis as Herman Melville without begging him to believe me to be, with my own hand, his most respectful and hearty admirer, W.

Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr.

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A los diecinueve anos de edad, con un futuro incierto en un mediocre empleo bancario, Herman Melville se embarco por primera vez en Nueva York rumbo a Londres, viaje al que siguio una serie de aventuras marinas por varios anos, que serian la materia prima de gran parte de su obra.

El sucedaneo de la pistola y la bala: una mirada a ... Moby Dick, de Herman Melville

Ann Charters pursued her early interests in Herman Melville and Charles Olson through multiple media, and one of the more unusual--and probably least recognized--examples of this scholarly thread in the Charters canon is Melville in the Berkshires: A Construct, a box containing Melville and Olson materials.

About Melville in the Berkshires: A Construct

The author analyzes three encyclopedic novels from Mexico, Canada, and the US--Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra, Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead--as well as the precursor of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies

Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick.

Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

In the 1851 novel Moby-Dick, American writer Herman Melville expends 135 chapters and an epilogue documenting Captain Ahab's tragic obsession with the eponymous white whale.

Reduced to a blubbering wreck

Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) visits emotionally crippled seaman Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson) at his home on Nantucket Island.