Exiled Royalties
Subtitle: Melville and the Life We Imagine
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 9, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780195142327
First sentence: In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy wonders what course her life might have taken if she and her siblings had not been orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918 and lodged with unsympathetic relatives at a young age.