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The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville -- a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize -- closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. "Take it all in all," Parker concluded, "this was the happiest day...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801868920
ISBN13:9780801868924
Release Date:May 2002
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:1056 Pages
Weight:3.55 lbs.
Dimensions:2.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"
Age Range:18 years and up
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