1855 Herman Melville Redburn His First Voyage Moby Dick Novel Fiction Seaman



Herman Melville was a 19th-century American novelist known for his work ‘Moby Dick’. While ‘Moby Dick’ has seen more sustained popularity since its first release, ‘Redburn’ was the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849 described as "arguably his funniest work", and scholar F. O. Matthiessen called it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick."



Redburn is the story of a young man's first voyage at sea, from New York to Liverpool and back, and was based on Melville's own first experiences as a seaman on a similar voyage, ten years before. The book was Melville's attempt at a more commercial sort of fiction.



Item number: #12455

Price: $550



MELVILLE, Herman



Redburn: his first voyage. Being the sailor-boy confessions and reminiscences of the son-of-a-gentleman, in the merchant service.



New York: Harper & Bros., 1855.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

xi, [13]-390

References: BAL 13660. Wright I, 1865.

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure

Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13.5cm)

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