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Availability:In StockContributor:Herman Melville, Elizabeth Hardwick (Introduction by)Series:Modern Library ClassicsPublish date:2002-09-10Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375760044ISBN-10:375760040UPC:9780375760044Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sea Stories, Biographical, ClassicsSize:7.96 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC6HV5MDKT
Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction. In her Introduction, Elizabeth Hardwick writes, "Redburn is rich in masterful portraits--a gallery of wild colors, pretensions and falsehoods, fleeting associations of unexpected tenderness. . . . Redburn is not a document; it is a work of art by the unexpected genius of a sailor, Herman Melville."

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition of 1849.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375760044ISBN-10:375760040UPC:9780375760044Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sea Stories, Biographical, ClassicsSize:7.96 x 5.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC6HV5MDKT
Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of many books and essays, including American Fictions (available from Modern Library Paperbacks) and Herman Melville. She lives in New York City.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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