Author: Jay Leyda
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Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Melville Log
Author: Jay Leyda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Melville Log
Author: Jay Leyda
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The Melville Log
Author: Jay Leyda
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Melville: A Novel
Author: Jean Giono
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle. Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681371383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleeing London for the country, wrestling with an angel, falling in love with an Irish nationalist, and, finally, meeting the angel’s challenge—to express man’s fate by writing the novel that would become his masterpiece. Eighty years after it appeared in English, Moby-Dick was translated into French for the first time by the Provençal novelist Jean Giono and his friend Lucien Jacques. The publisher persuaded Giono to write a preface, granting him unusual latitude. The result was this literary essay, Melville: A Novel—part biography, part philosophical rumination, part romance, part unfettered fantasy. Paul Eprile’s expressive translation of this intimate homage brings the exchange full circle. Paul Eprile was a co-winner of the French-American Foundation's 2018 Translation Prize for his translation of Melville.
The Portable Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101128100
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent-that of a poet-philosopher-in prose and verse. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition promises to be the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101128100
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent-that of a poet-philosopher-in prose and verse. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition promises to be the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Value of Herman Melville
Author: Geoffrey Sanborn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471447
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471447
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.
The Melville Log
Author: Jay Leyda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Publisher:
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Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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The Melville Log
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Herman Melville: 1851-1891
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.
The Civil War World of Herman Melville
Author: Stanton Garner
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A detailed account of Herman Melville's life during the Civil War, as well as study of his war epic, Battle-Pieces.
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A detailed account of Herman Melville's life during the Civil War, as well as study of his war epic, Battle-Pieces.