Herman Melville
Subtitle: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives)
Contributors: Brian Higgins (Editor); Hershel Parker (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780521414234
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Criticism and interpretation; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Melville, Herman; Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation; 19th century; 1819-1891; American fiction; Book reviews; Melville, Herman,
First sentence: "Sailors" says the lively American to whom we are indebted for this insight into one of the strange corners of the earth, "are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventure,"-and he adds, that the incidents here recorded "have often served, when spun as a yarn, not only to relieve the weariness of many a night-watch at sea, but to excite the warmest sympathies of the author's shipmates."