Herman Melville
Subtitle: A Biography (Volume 1, 1819-1851)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 15, 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9780801881855
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Biography: general; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography; American English; USA; American - General; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; 1819-1891; 19th century; Biography; Melville, Herman; Melville, Herman,; Novelists, American
First sentence: ON SATURDAY, 9 OCTOBER 1830, in a hastily emptied house on Broadway in lower Manhattan, Herman Melvill, eleven years old, helped his father, Allan Melvill, forty-eight, pack up a remnant of papers and odds and ends of light personal belongings that they could walk away with after dark.
Table of contents: title: The flight of the patrician Wastrel and his second son: 1830; title: Herman Melvill's world, 1819-1830: Manhattan, Albany, Boston; title: "The terrors of death": Albany, 1831-1832; title: The "cholera year": 1832-1833; title: In the shadow of the young furrier: Herman as clerk, 1833-1835; title: Clerk, farmer, teacher, polemicist: 1836; title: May 1838; title: Herman in Lansingburgh: full-grown and useless, May 1838; title: May 1839; title: Sailor and schoolteacher: 1839-1840; title: West to seek his fortune: 1840; title: The first year of whaling: 1841; title: Whaler and runaway: 1842; title: Beachcomber and whaler: 1842-1843; title: Lahaina and Honolulu: 1843; title: Ordinary seaman on the United States: 1843-1844; title: Home but not home: October 1844; title: The sailor, the orator, and the grand contested election: 1844; title: Catching up: 1844; title: The sailor and the writing desk: 1844-1845; title: A manuscript but no publisher: 1845; title: A modern Crusoe: 1846; title: International author and the man of the family: 1846; title: The resurrection of Toby: 1846; title: Winning Elizabeth Shaw and winning the Harpers: 1846; title: Office-seeker and reviewer: 1847; title: Triumphant author, triumphant lover: 1847; title: Scandal and marriage: 1847; title: Newlyweds in New York City: 1847; title: Mardi as island-hopping symposium: 1847-1848; title: Dollars be damned: "the red year forty-eight"; title: Malcolm and the fate of Mardi: 1849; title: Redburn and White-jacket: summer 1849; title: London and a peek at continental life: fall 1849; title: The breaching of Mocha Dick: January 1850; title: Hiding out on the cannibal island: February; title: June 1850; title: Pittsfield and Hawthorne: June; title: 7 August 1850; title: Hawthorne and his Mosses: 8 August; title: September 1850; title: Writing at Arrowhead: October 1850; title: mid-January 1851; title: Damned by dollars: mid January; title: 1 May 1851; title: The final dash at The whale: May; title: September 1851; title: Melville in triumph: The whale and the kraken, September; title: November 1851