Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic by Raymond M. Weaver

Description

Weaver set out to find the man who had written Moby-Dick and then fallen silent, publishing Pierre, Clarel, and a scattering of stories that the public ignored. Following Melville from the whaling voyages of his youth to his long, quiet obscurity as a customs inspector in New York, Weaver traced the arc of a genius who outlived his own fame.

The biography is not flawless scholarship — some of its facts have been corrected since — but it is the great work of recovery, written with real feeling for its subject and the prose to match. Every later Melville biography stands on its shoulders.

Why readers still come back to it

• The founding work of the Melville revival of the 1920s.
• Follows Melville from the South Seas to his years of silence.
• Essential reading for anyone who loves Moby-Dick.

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