White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories - Melville, Herman
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The mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature-all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby-Dick. The symbolism of the color white, introduced in this novel in the form of the narrator's jacket, is more fully expanded upon in Moby-Dick, where it becomes an all-encompassing "blankness." Melville's (best known for his classic whaling novel) The White Jacket written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature-all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby-Dick. The symbolism of the color white, introduced in this novel in the form of the narrator's jacket, is more fully expanded upon in Moby-Dick, where it becomes an all-encompassing "blankness." Melville's (best known for his classic whaling novel) The White Jacket written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o-war vessel. In the note preceding the novel, Melville states, "In the year 1843 I shipped as 'ordinary seaman' on board of a United States frigate then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service . . ."
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Autorenporträt
Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819 to a once-wealthy family. After his father's death left them impoverished, Melville went to sea, drawing inspiration from his experiences for later works. His time aboard the whaling ship Acushnet inspired Typee, a semi-autobiographical novel about his adventures.By the mid-1800s, Melville aimed to create more ambitious works. His most famous novel, Moby Dick (1851), explored themes of nature and obsession but initially failed commercially. Other works like Pierre also struggled to find success.Later, Melville turned to poetry and worked as a customs inspector in New York. His poems, like Battle Pieces, examined themes of war and America. Only in the 20th century was his literary genius fully recognized, with Moby Dick now hailed as one of America's greatest novels.
Herman Melville