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Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819, in New York City, the third child and second son of a merchant and his wife. He attended school in New York and Albany, where the family had moved after his father's business failed. From 1841-1844, Melville sailed the Pacific on the voyages that provided the material for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), Mardi (1849), Redburn (1849), White-Jacket (1850), Moby-Dick (1851), and Billy Budd (1924, posthumous). He married Elizabeth Shaw in 1847, and they had four children. Despite the huge popularity of his first five novels, his reputation began to decline with the negative response to Moby-Dick. Melville published almost nothing for the last twenty-five years of his life except Clarel (1876), a long poem about religious uncertainty. He died of a heart attack on September 28, 1891, in New York.
| ISBN-13 | 9781587261169 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1587261162 |
| Weight | 1.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.75 x 5.75 x 1.56 In |
| List Price | $9.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 602 pages |
| Publisher | Borders Classics |
| Published On | 2004-05-01 |
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