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Title: White-Jacket Or, the World in a Man-Of-War (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville, Elizabeth Hardwick ISBN: 0812966171 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25

Rating: 4
Summary: White-Jacket
Comment: I feel quite strange presuming to give a numerical rating to a book by one of American literature's greatest authors.

It's important for readers to realize that White-Jacket is not what would, in the modern day, be considered a novel. There is essentially no plot structure. It's a melange of events, descriptive passages and polemic, narrated by the eponymous White-Jacket, whom I suspect of being Melville himself. At times the book is entertainingly humorous - as when the narrator tries to get rid of his famous jacket. And much of the description of life aboard a man-of-war is fascinating -- the book would make a helpful companion for people reading modern novels such as O'Brian's series. (And, of course, White-Jacket probably was one of the sources used by O'Brian and other aquatic novelists.) The polemic -- Melville's rants against flogging and his pacifist pleas -- I found tiresome, as I always find polemic, regardless of its aims.

Rating: 4
Summary: Questionable Authority
Comment: If you find yourself in a position where the individuals in authority over you are, in the actual state of affairs, your moral inferiors, then on this level alone you will be able to appreciate this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: awesome
Comment: Fascinating, entertaining account of life on a man-of-war. Hilarious in parts; always subversive. Melville's mock glorification of the U.S. Navy and its officers is brilliant.

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