Redburn (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375760044)

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.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 0375760040
ISBN-13: 9780375760044
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2002
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.90d