Correspondence: Volume Fourteen, Scholarly Edition (Melville)
This collection, the most complete edition to date of Melville's extant correspondence, gives access to the life and writings of one of our finest novelists. While the letters to his family deal in a perfunctory manner with the details of everyday life, the letters written between 1846 and 1852 to Evert Duyckinck and Nathaniel Hawthorne reveal the creative and critical genius that mark Melville's best work. The letters are arranged chronologically, and each is preceded by an editorial headnote placing it in the context of Melville's career. An appendix provides historical notes and reveals the textual apparatus used in the selection and location of the texts. This work, the penultimate volume in the definitive Northwestern-Newberry edition of Melville's writings, builds upon and surpasses the Merrell R. Davis-William H. Gilman edition of The Letters of Herman Melville (Yale Univ. Pr., 1960). Highly recommended.- Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Westerville P.L., OhioCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.