Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by three authors. Identifying a line of writing from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Conduct of Life to Nathaniel Hawthorne's posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscripts to Herman Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their sense of vocational calling.
With Moby-Dick Herman Melville set the standard for the Great American Novel, and with “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd he completed perhaps the greatest oeuvre of any of our writers. Now Andrew Delbanco, hailed by Time as “America’s best social critic,” uses unparalleled historical and critical perspective to give us both a commanding biography and a riveting portrait of the young nation.
Two sailors on a remote South Seas island find themselves guests of a cannibal tribe. Or are they prisoners and, perhaps, a future meal for their hosts? Herman Melville won fame as the “man who lived among the cannibals” in his account of his true-life adventure in his first book, Typee.
LEVEL 5 - Upper Intermediate A classic story: carefully adapted to suit the needs of learners of English at Upper-Intermediate level. A large number of full-colour illustrations facilitate understanding.
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TheCambridge Introduction to Hermann Melville
Traveling from Pittsfield,Massachusetts to Albany,New York oneNovember to spend Thanksgiving with his family, HermanMelville, at eighteen, had time to reflect on his personal situation. Born in New York City on 1 August 1819, he had enjoyed a comfortable boyhood, but reverses in his father’s business during Herman’s adolescence had forced the family to relocate to Albany, where his father fared no better. Overambitious schemes and overextended credit took their toll.He died a broken
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