Redburn
Subtitle: his first voyage : being the sailor-boy confession and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, in the merchant service
By: Herman Melville ; introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick ; notes by Geoffrey Sanborn.
Edition: 2002 Modern Library pbk. ed.
Series: The Modern Library classics
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Sailors -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Seafaring life -- Fiction; Merchant mariners -- Fiction; Americans -- England -- Fiction; Liverpool (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction."--Jacket.