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Redburn. His First Voyage. By: Herman Melville ( The Book Is Semi-Autobiographical )
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Redburn. His First Voyage. By: Herman Melville ( Semi-Autobiographical )
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Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work," scholar F.O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick".Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty.
| Author: Herman Melville |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jan 19, 2017 |
| Number of Pages: 210 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1542634148 |
| ISBN-13: 9781542634144 |
Redburn. His First Voyage. By: Herman Melville ( Semi-Autobiographical )
$13.28
Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work," scholar F.O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick".Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of New York City bound for Liverpool, England. Representing himself as the "son of a gentleman" and expecting to be treated as such, he discovers that he is just a green hand, a "boy", the lowest rank on the ship, assigned all the duties no other sailor wants, like cleaning out the "pig-pen", a longboat that serves as a shipboard sty.
| Author: Herman Melville |
| Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Jan 19, 2017 |
| Number of Pages: 210 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1542634148 |
| ISBN-13: 9781542634144 |
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