Herman Melville: Among the Magazines

by Graham Thompson

What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, -it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. Herman Melville wrote these words as he struggled to survive as a failing novelist. Between 1853 and 1856, he did write "the other way," working exclusively for magazines. He earned more money from his stories than from the combined sales of his most well known novels, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and The Confidence-Man...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343248
• ISBN13: 9781625343246
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher