- American Sea stories, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Literature
Reburn is the story that relates a young man's initiation into the sailors life; White-Jacket is the story that is a semi-autobiographical account of experiences in the U.S. Navy; Moby-Dick, or the whale is the most famous of Melville's works, and tells the story of Ahab, a ship captain that has become obessed with the hunt for the whale he has named Moby-Dick.
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Earnest, prestige, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Herman Melville
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 1436
- Publisher
- Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., Distributed to the trade by the Viking Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780521262187
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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