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Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

By Michael Shelden
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By Michael Shelden
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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville’s canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.

Herman Melville’s epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author’s rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by aca...

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LiteratureLiterary BiographyLiterary CriticismAmerican Literary BiographyAmerican Literature19th Century American Authors - Literary Biography19th Century American Literature - Literary CriticismMelville, Herman (1819-1891)->BiographyAuthors, American->19th century->Biography