Masters of American Literature, Հատոր 2Henry August Pochmann, Gay Wilson Allen Macmillan, 1949 |
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... ( Moby Dick ) and perhaps his great- est failure ( Pierre ) , Melville turned his attention to a pot - boiler , Redburn ( 1849 ) . The nature of this work has been indicated above , a semiautobiographical account of Melville's youthful ...
... ( Moby Dick ) and perhaps his great- est failure ( Pierre ) , Melville turned his attention to a pot - boiler , Redburn ( 1849 ) . The nature of this work has been indicated above , a semiautobiographical account of Melville's youthful ...
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... Moby Dick , turns a whaling expedition into a personal quest for revenge , eventu- ally destroying his ship and everyone on it except the author - narrator , Ishmael . To Ahab the White Whale is the " monomaniac incarnation of all those ...
... Moby Dick , turns a whaling expedition into a personal quest for revenge , eventu- ally destroying his ship and everyone on it except the author - narrator , Ishmael . To Ahab the White Whale is the " monomaniac incarnation of all those ...
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... Moby Dick and Pierre are turgid , rambling , and often erratic in style- especially Pierre . As tragic as either of these works , Billy Budd is without their rhetorical eccentricities . It is the story of a simple but incorruptible ...
... Moby Dick and Pierre are turgid , rambling , and often erratic in style- especially Pierre . As tragic as either of these works , Billy Budd is without their rhetorical eccentricities . It is the story of a simple but incorruptible ...
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