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1) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Herman Melville's dark and brilliant late works contain some of his most powerful writing. After Moby-Dick he turned from the high seas to record his keen, bleak vision of life at home in America. Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man, satirical dissections of moral breakdown and social hypocricy, anticipate modernist fiction with their black humor and formal experimentation. With them here are The Piazza Tales - including "Bartleby the Scrivener,"...