The Piazza Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781490933122)

Herman Melville Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American boat returning to the U.S. He successfully romanticized these adventures, publishing seven novels in six years, including Moby Dick (1851), one of the masterworks of American fiction. His popularity waned, and by the time he died he was virtually forgotten. Billy Budd was his last great novel. As his writing declined, Melville sailed again, around Cape Horn to San Francisco on a clipper ship commanded by his brother.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 1490933123
ISBN-13: 9781490933122
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2013
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.43d