The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor eBook
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About the book
Imprint
Collection
n.c
Publication date
2012-05-31
Pages
448 pages
Print ISBN
9780141199306
Language
English
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EAN EPUB
9780141974385
Price
£2.99
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About author(s)


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 failures. 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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