Bartleby, the Scrivener - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1466268778 ISBN 13: 9781466268777

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Book by Melville, Herman

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About the Author

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was almost forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods who went bankrupt. After the death of his father in 1832, his formal education stopped abruptly and he briefly became a schoolteacher. He then signed on as a common sailor for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for up to a month. In August 1850, he moved to a farm near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he established a profound but short-lived friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Moby-Dick (1851) was not welcomed by readers or reviewers, and the cool reception of Pierre (1852) put an end to his career as a popular author. In his final years he had been working on the manuscript of Billy Budd, Sailor, which was left unfinished at his death and published only in 1924.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1466268778
• ISBN 13: 9781466268777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32