Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick by Michael Shelden

Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

Michael Shelden

288 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging reflective medium-paced
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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his g...

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