Melville
Subtitle: A Biography
Edition: 1st Paperback Ed edition
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: July 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9781558491458
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; English; USA; Literary; American - General; Melville, Herman; 1819-1891; 19th century; Melville, Herman,; Novelists, American
First sentence: Long before Herman Melville was born at the tip of Manhattan, the island was home to the Algonkians, who called it Manah-hatin, "Island of the Hills."