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Informationen zum Autor Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favour with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Klappentext PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE WITH THE BECENTENARY OF HORACE WALPOLE'S DEATH Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes. Zusammenfassung PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE WITH THE BECENTENARY OF HORACE WALPOLE'S DEATH Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes.

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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favour with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

Product details

• Authors: Herman Melville
• Assisted by: John Updike (Introduction)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.1997
• EAN: 9781857152326
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-232-6
• No. of pages: 478
• Dimensions: 28 mm x 210 mm x 135 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Classic fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form