Herman Melville
A Biography
by Hershel Parker
1056 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780801881862
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This two-volume project constitutes the most comprehensive biography of Melville ever published. Hershel Parker reveals with extraordinary precision the twisting turns and turmoil of Melville's life, from his Manhattan boyhood to his death.
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