Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick

by Michael Shelden

Book Overview

A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.

Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006241898X
• ISBN13: 9780062418982
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"