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Title: Redburn: His First Voyage : Being the Sailor-Boy Confession and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville, Elizabeth Hardwick ISBN: 0-375-76004-0 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Melville, Like Me
Comment: I'm one of those people who have read MOBY DICK a few times, so I may be biased towards Herman Melville, but I found REDBURN an excellent read.
Though it is an argueable point; many believe that REDBURN is based on Melville's first voyage. This may not be interesting to you if you are an adherent of NEW CRITICISM, but for any Melville fan or scholar this book sheds some light on Melville's persona.
I noticed some elements of REDBURN that would later surface in MOBY DICK and PIERRE -- as more developed themes. This book starts out as pretty straight forward adventure narrative, but leave it to Herman, by the middle of the book he goes off into his preaching, sermonizing, and editorializing . . . but I like that about Melville.
This might sound strange coming from a Melvillian 'scholar,' but Herman Mellville was not a good writer . . . he is an interesting author though, but he makes mistakes, and he often takes his stories through such long and twisted circumloctions that it is no wonder that many modern readers are turned off by him. However, if you love Melville despite his flaws then you will love REDBURN, because it shows the progress that Melville was making towards THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL, MOBY-DICK.
Herman Melville did not much care for REDBURN when he wrote it. He wrote it quickly and for the money, and then he tried to distance himself from it. He felt MARDI, the novel he wrote just before REDBURN, was the better, but it was panned. On the other hand, REDBURN recieved good reiviews in its day much to Melville's suprise . . . I learned all this in the afterword of the Northwest-Newberry Edition. The detailed history of REDBURN included in that edition is pretty interesting reading in itself if you are a Mevillian, like me.
I apologize for any typos . . . but no spell-check.
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Title: White-Jacket: Or the World in a Man-Of-War (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville ISBN: 0192838016 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Mardi and a Voyage Thither (Writings of Herman Melville) by Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle ISBN: 0810116901 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Pierre, Or, the Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville, William C. Spengemann ISBN: 0140434844 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Confidence Man (Literary Classics (Prometheus Books)) by Herman Melville, Prometheus Books ISBN: 157392038X Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Galaxy Books) by Francis Otto Matthiessen ISBN: 019500759X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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