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Há 3 dias · Herman Melville ( born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
Há 3 dias · The name was also a reference to the ancestry Hall says he was told by his family, though he is not directly related to Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Moby is distantly related to David Melville , inventor of the first United States-patented gas light system.
Há 2 dias · Herman Melville, who had met Emerson in 1849, originally thought he had "a defect in the region of the heart" and a "self-conceit so intensely intellectual that at first one hesitates to call it by its right name", though he later admitted Emerson was "a great man".
14 de mai. de 2024 · Reprints of all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840's until his death in 1891.
10 de mai. de 2024 · Home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863. Dedicated to preserving the history of Berkshire County and the Arrowhead farm.
17 de mai. de 2024 · A Political Companion to Herman Melville (2013) A collection of essays that explore Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his works from Typee (1846) to Billy Budd (1924). Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel, Dawn Coleman (2013) An exploration of the relationship between religious practices and literature in pre-Civil War America.
26 de mai. de 2024 · Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" illustrates the dangers of worldwide authoritarianism. However, Melville was an exceedingly perceptive observer of the the patterns of history.
