Redburn
His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service
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- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
26 August 1976
Summary
Harold Beaver’s introduction considers Melville’s own time as a young sailor in the early nineteenth century.
Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined. Mocked by the crew on board the Highlander for his weakness and bullied by the vicious and merciless sailor Jackson, Wellington must…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140431056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140431055 |
| Author: | Herman Melville, Harold Beaver |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 1976 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin English Library |
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Critics Review
“Redburn, recalling the cruel memories of [Melville’s] youth, was the first bitter cry of his maturity… . The book has the wry humour of the grown man… . Redburn was a victory.” –Lewis Mumford
About The Author
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.
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