White Jacket: The World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

White Jacket: The World on a Man-of-War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781466232792)

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White Jacket: The World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

White Jacket: The World on a Man-of-War

$16.99
White Jacket: The World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

White Jacket: The World on a Man-of-War

$16.99
Format: Paperback
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Written by Herman Melville (who was best known for his classic whaling novel), White Jacket was first published in 1850. It is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o'-war vessel. During 1834-44, Melville served as an ordinary seaman aboard the U.S. frigate United States. A critically acclaimed novel, White Jacket won political support for its stand against the use of flogging as corporal punishment aboard naval vessels. It is not known if White Jacket was directly responsible for the cessation of flogging; however, members of Congress received copies of the novel during the Congressional debate over the issue, and flogging in the U.S. Navy was abolished that year. Subtitled The World in a Man-of-War, the novel depicts life aboard a typical frigate, the Neversink, and describes the tyrannies to which ship's officers subject ordinary seamen and the appalling conditions under which the seamen live.

Author: Herman Melville
ISBN-10: 146623279X
ISBN-13: 9781466232792
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2011
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d
By Herman Melville
By Herman Melville
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Herman Melville (1819 -1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

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