Herman Melville

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

出版者:Library of America

作者:Herman Melville

页数:1333

出版时间:1982-05-06

价格:USD 40.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780940450004

丛书系列:Library of America

图书标签:英语美国文库梅尔维尔文学Herman_Melville

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读完梅尔维尔的《避雷专家》，我心释然。人类命运已交付上帝，抬头看看天边的彩虹，便知暴风雨后上帝对我们的仁慈。忽然想到那首经典老歌《笨小孩》，“老天自有安排”。

读完梅尔维尔的《避雷专家》，我心释然。人类命运已交付上帝，抬头看看天边的彩虹，便知暴风雨后上帝对我们的仁慈。忽然想到那首经典老歌《笨小孩》，“老天自有安排”。

读完梅尔维尔的《避雷专家》，我心释然。人类命运已交付上帝，抬头看看天边的彩虹，便知暴风雨后上帝对我们的仁慈。忽然想到那首经典老歌《笨小孩》，“老天自有安排”。

读完梅尔维尔的《避雷专家》，我心释然。人类命运已交付上帝，抬头看看天边的彩虹，便知暴风雨后上帝对我们的仁慈。忽然想到那首经典老歌《笨小孩》，“老天自有安排”。

读完梅尔维尔的《避雷专家》，我心释然。人类命运已交付上帝，抬头看看天边的彩虹，便知暴风雨后上帝对我们的仁慈。忽然想到那首经典老歌《笨小孩》，“老天自有安排”。