Herman Melville
The Essential Melville - 160+ Titles in One Edition
Moby-Dick, Typee, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Redburn, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man…
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2442-5
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Herman Melville by Virginia Woolf
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs
Clarel – A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse
Authentic Anecdotes of “Old Zack”
INTRODUCTION
HERMAN MELVILLE BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
Somewhere upon the horizon of the mind, not recognizable yet in existence, ‘Typee’ and ‘Omoo’ together with the name of Herman Melville, float in company. But since Herman Melville is apt to become Whyte Melville or Herman Merivale and ‘Omoo’ for some less obvious reason connects itself with the adventures of an imaginary bushranger who is liable to turn jockey and then play a part in the drama of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, it is evident that a mist, due to ignorance or the lapse of time, must have descended upon those far distant