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- From 12 to 17 years
- Paperback / softback | 112 pages
- 12.9 × 0.8 × 19.8 cm | 103
- 05 November 2020
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- United Kingdom
€9.80
Show Book TagsISBN: 9780241463352
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 12.9 × 0.8 × 19.8 cm
Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were fa ilures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.
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