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Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and Also Including "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!", "The Encantadas", "The Paradise Of Bachelors" & "The Tartarus Of Maids".

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Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and Also Including "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!", "The Encantadas", "The Paradise Of Bachelors" & "The Tartarus Of Maids".
Autorenporträt
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.