Herman Melville, mariner and mystic
By: by Raymond M. Weaver. Introd. by Mark Van Doren
Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891
Notes: Bibliography: p. 385-388
Table of contents: title: 1. Devil’s Advocate; title: 2. Ghosts; title: 3. Parents and Early Years; title: 4. A Substitute for Pistol and Ball; title: 5. Discoveries on Two Continents; title: 6. Pedagogy, Pugilism and Letters; title: 7. Blubber and Mysticism; title: 8. Leviathan; title: 9. The Pacific; title: 10. Man-Eating Epicures – The Marquesas; title: 11. Mutiny and Missionaries – Tahiti; title: 12. On Board a Man-of-War; title: 13. Into the Racing Tide; title: 14. Across the Atlantic Again; title: 15. A Neighbour of Hawthorne’s; title: 16. The Great Refusal; title: 17. The Long Quietus