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Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary 'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' A traveller's account that reads like a vision of Hell, Melville's descriptions of the nightmarish creatures and otherworldly landscapes of the Galapagos Islands, based on his adventures around the Pacific in a whaler, are accompanied here by his darkly resonant sea poems.

Author Biography:

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.
Release date Australia
February 26th, 2015
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Pages
64
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
110x160x6
ISBN-13
9780141397177
Product ID
22784966

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