Melville?s continuing adventures in the South Seas?now for the first time in Penguin Classics Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea
“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered
“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered
A founder of the Melville Society, Wilson (1913-85) wrote the study as his Ph.D. dissertation for Vanderbilt University, partly drawing from the recently discovered log of the ship on which 19th-centu
A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conferenceThe twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 1
