Herman Melville

A comprehensive exploration of Melville''s formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today''s generations of Melville readers

Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville''s life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of Typee in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensiv...