Herman Melville

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Israel Potter by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics

Beschreibung

Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the novelized tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure. After fighting in the revolution, he went on to be a part of the newly-established United States Navy, ended up serving as a secret courier for Benjamin Franklin! Bits of this are fiction, and may be even more spectacular. . . .

Autor

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. Herman Melville's 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aegypan
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781598184082
• ISBN-10: 1598184083
• Artikelnr.: 22521289