Herman Melville

By Newton Arvin

Subjects: Biography, award:national_book_award=1951, Criticism and interpretation, American Novelists, award:national_book_award=nonfiction, Melville, herman, 1819-1891, National Book Award Winner

Description: A narrative account of what is known of Melville's life, and an interpretation, in psychological and psychoanalytical terms, of Melville's personality. Critically, it presents an independent appraisal and an exhaustive analysis ... of Melville's prose and verse."