Herman melville a biography herschel parker

Parker's impressive scholarship and a vigorous analysis are cause for celebration.

Too often reviewers misuse the word 'definitive'; not so in this case.

It covers the years from Melville's birth in up to the publication of MOBY DICK in Parker seems to have tracked down every move in Melville's life.

It covers the years from Melville's birth in up to the publication of MOBY DICK in Parker seems to have tracked down every move in Melville's life.

Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his.

From the Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville, the first of a two-volume project constituting the fullest biography of Melville ever of the Association of American.

Herman Melville, is the first of a two-volume project constituting the fullest biography of Melville ever published.

Herman Melville, is the first of a two-volume project constituting the fullest biography of Melville ever published.

The meticulous Parker has practically reconstructed Melville's DNA and in doing so has rendered American literature a signal service. Parker recounts Melville's chronic bad luck, epic writing binges, failed lectures, surreal visions and troubled marriage.

It's a saga of genius refusing to be derailed. But Parker unearths a plethora of new material, including previously unknown family correspondence and even the title and plot of Melville's long-lost novel, The Isle of the Cross.

(Douglas Brinkley Los Angeles Times Book Review)

Through prodigious archival research, Parker creates a compelling narrative out of the last forty years of Melville's life, as he struggled with the spectre of failure...

It is unlikely that a more searching or truthful biography of Melville will appear in the foreseeable future; the two volumes Parker has