Herman Melville
Subtitle: a biography
By: Hershel Parker.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Biography; Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
Notes: 145,039

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. 1819-1851.