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Synopsis
Delilah is a sea story unlike any ever written, although in reading itone isreminded of Ahab’s single-minded quest for the great white whale, of Joseph Conrad and his men of the sea, of the struggles of epic myth and the real battles that have become mythic within the imaginations of men.
The novel is in all ways extraordinary. The story, which occurs on the eve of the first World War, is that of a U.S. Navy destroyer on detached duty in the South Seas and of the men who serve in her. In the tiny world of a destroyer in a vast universe of the sea, the officers and men of Delilah carry out their orders heroically, according to the code of the fighting man, to patrol their assigned area, to inspect remote islands, to show the flag, to carry out diplomatic missions, and to prepare for the impending war.
From thebeginning, the men aboard Delilah face severe trials. A voracious eater of coal, she must be fed constantly. A typhoon provides a test that all but the hardiest must fail.
When the novel was first published in 1941,Sinclair Lewis noted that itwas “more real than reality.” The New York Times called itan “extraordinarily lovely novel of a fighting ship”; and Clifton Fadiman referred to itin the New Yorker as a “mature work of imagination on a subject ordinarily left to writers of adventure yarns.”
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About the Author
Marcus Goodrich now lives in Richmond, Virginia. He served in the U.S. Navy both as an enlisted man and a commissioned officer during World War I. He was graduated from Columbia in 1923, and was a journalist and a screenwriter.
James A. Michener is perhaps best known for his Tales of the South Pacific and Hawaii.
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Delilah
Published by
Southern Illinois University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0809307391
ISBN 13: 9780809307395
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Hardcover
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. White cloth over boards with blue lettering on spine. Covers show small orange marks; otherwise clean and sturdy. Black pictorial DJ clean with only minor rubbing at crown and foot of spine and light toning to back. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1978. Lost American Fiction reprint of the 1941 edition. 512 pages. Clean throughout. A very nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. Seller Inventory # 24-1136
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Delilah (Lost American fiction)
Published by
Southern Illinois University Pre, 1978
ISBN 10: 0809307391
ISBN 13: 9780809307395
Used
Hardcover
Seller: The Bookworm, Herrin, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1978 hardcover with clean text abd tight binding; light edge foxing; jacket is good with small edge chipping; A1S7. Seller Inventory # mon0000186174
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Delilah (Lost American Fiction)
Published by
Southern Illinois University Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0809307391
ISBN 13: 9780809307395
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: The Bookworm, Herrin, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very nice 1978 hardcover published by SIU Press; clean text, tight binding; light shelf wear to jacket; (many other Lost American Fiction books also available) A2S14. Seller Inventory # ABE-1742768074628