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465 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140430295
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The tales in this selection of Melville's shorter fiction are products of the strange and complex imagination that produced Moby-Dick. Written 'in prose nouveau riche in its verbal splendour, antiquarian in its delight, bible-echoed, allusive, ela...
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465 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140430295
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The tales in this selection of Melville's shorter fiction are products of the strange and complex imagination that produced Moby-Dick. Written 'in prose nouveau riche in its verbal splendour, antiquarian in its delight, bible-echoed, allusive, ela...