| Redburn Contributor(s): Melville, Herman (Author), Hardwick, Elizabeth (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0375760040 ISBN-13: 9780375760044 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, "Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction. In her Introduction, Elizabeth Hardwick writes, ""Redburn is rich in masterful portraits--a gallery of wild colors, pretensions and falsehoods, fleeting associations of unexpected tenderness. . . . "Redburn is not a document; it is a work of art by the unexpected genius of a sailor, Herman Melville." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition of 1849. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sea Stories - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002067080 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.96" (0.66 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction. In her Introduction, Elizabeth Hardwick writes, "Redburn is rich in masterful portraits--a gallery of wild colors, pretensions and falsehoods, fleeting associations of unexpected tenderness. . . . Redburn is not a document; it is a work of art by the unexpected genius of a sailor, Herman Melville." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition of 1849. |