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Redburn|Herman Melville

Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780375760044
  • ISBN-10: 0375760040
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: September 2002
  • Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
  • Page Count: 416

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