Herman Melville

Broschiertes Buch

I Would Prefer Not to

Essential Stories

Beschreibung

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.

Autor

Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville largely abandoned fiction writing after 1857, turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.

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Produktdetails

• Pushkin Collection
• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 117mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9781782277460
• ISBN-10: 1782277463
• Artikelnr.: 60884624