Title: Tolerable entertainment
Description: "In Tolerable Entertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windows on the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville's writings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to his experience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts in American life occurring at the time."--Jacket.
Subjects: American Authors, American Novelists, Authorship, Biography, History, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Professions, Social aspects of Authorship, Melville, herman, 1819-1891, Authors, american, New york (n.y.), intellectual life, New york (n.y.), biography, Social aspects
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time periods: 19th century