num_pages: 161
description: The life story of the author of Moby-Dick furnishes an analysis of all of Melville's writings and depicts his days as a whaleship deckhand and his bitterness over the public's failure to embrace his master work, Moby-Dick. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Herman Melville
titlecomplete: Herman Melville
characters: Herman Melville
genres: Biography, Essays, Literary Criticism, Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 141
publisher: Viking Adult