Terman Melville

terman melville 1819-91, matchless of the greatest American writers; b. N.Y.C. His experiences on a whaler (1841-42) and ashore in the Marquesas (where he was captured by cannibals) and other due south Sea islands led to the writing of Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), and other widely touristy romances. Melvilles masterpiece, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), the tale of a whaling captains obsessive search for the smock whale that had ripped off his leg, is at once an exciting sea story, a heavily symbolic inquiry into good and evil, and one of the greatest novels ever written.

Both Moby-Dick and the psychological novel capital of South Dakota; or, The Ambiguities (1852) were misunderstood at the time of their publication and badly received. Although dishearten by his failure to win an audience, by ill health, and by debts, Melville continued to produce such important works as The Piazza Tales (1856), a collection including the stories Benito Cereno and Bartleby the Scrivener, The Confidence Man (1857), and th...If you emergency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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