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Herman Melville | | Birth Date: |
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Biography of Herman Melville
20,365 words, approx. 68 pages
 Herman Melville drew upon his adventurous travels on sea and land for the primary materials of his greatest fiction and poetry. Out of his experiences in the merchant service (1839), the whaling industry (1841- 1843), and the United States Navy...
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Biography of Herman Melville
16,556 words, approx. 55 pages
 Herman Melville, who died almost forgotten although he had once been a popular author and had left behind ten notable books of prose fiction and four of verse, has gathered increasing fame, especially for his metaphysical whaling novel, Moby-Dick...
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Biography of Herman Melville
14,744 words, approx. 49 pages
 Herman Melville, who died almost forgotten although he had once been a popular author and had left behind ten notable books of prose fiction and four of verse, has gathered increasing fame, especially for his metaphysical whaling novel, Moby-Dick. Like...



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Herman Melville Quotes
3,685 words, approx. 12 pages
 Herman Melville ( 1 August 1819 - 28 September 1891 ) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. See also Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 White-Jacket (1850) 1.2 Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850) 1.3 Moby-Dick: or, the Whale...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information

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Melville, Herman
231 words, approx. 1 pages (born Aug. 1, 1819, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 28, 1891, New York City) U.S. writer. Born to a wealthy New York family that suffered great financial losses, Melville had little formal schooling and began a period of wanderings at sea in...
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Herman Melville - (1819 - 1891) Summary
19,093 words, approx. 64 pages Herman Melville - (1819 - 1891) American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Melville, a major American literary figure of the nineteenth century, is best known as the author of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), a complex metaphysical novel that is...
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Herman Melville Information
4,040 words, approx. 14 pages
 Herman Melville (August 1 1819 – September 28 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few...




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Melville the poet: introduction.(writer Herman Melville)
10/01/2007: 2,696 words, approx. 9 pages "The poet Herman Melville"--the words still strike us as an odd surprise. The general public, aware of Melville as a great American author even if they have not read his work, associates him exclusively with fiction. Scholars, including scholars of American literature, are...
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 The Washington Times
Herman Melville, Vol. II.(BOOKS)
07/28/2002: 1,366 words, approx. 5 pages Byline: Bruce Allen, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Whenever I'm asked if I think the great American novel will ever be written, I reply "read (or reread) 'Moby Dick.'" The biblical prose cadences, lavish wealth of information, and tragic characterizations that give...
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Sendak's work with Carole King displayed
11/26/2007: 371 words, approx. 1 pages The Rosenbach Museum & Library is celebrating the work of Maurice Sendak with an expansion of its gallery space and "Really Rosie," a new show exploring the children's book author's collaboration with singer-songwriter Carole King."Really Rosie," perhaps best known to people who grew up in...
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Internet abuzz over 'Ismail Ax' meaning
4/21/2007: 492 words, approx. 2 pages It was reportedly scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings. And a variation of it...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Robert J. Schwendinger
8,153 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Schwendinger studies the similarities between Melville's language and the language of nineteenth-century sea shanties—songs with a swinging, or lilting rhythm, often sung by sailors while onboard ship.
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Critical Essay by Brook Thomas
6,734 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the essay that follows, Thomas studies the significance of human procreation as a figure for writing in Melville's Pierre; the title character's unsuccessful attempt to free himself of his family's past reveals the extent to which the authority of a text's author is fictional.
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