White Jacket de Herman Melville

White Jacket

Herman Melville

The White Jacket written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o-war vessel. In the note preceding the novel, Melville states, "In the year 1843 I shipped as 'ordinary seaman' on board of a United States frigate then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service . . ."

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Hardback (1)	230^.04 lei 43-57 zile
Aegypan Press – 30 sep 2006	230^.04 lei 43-57 zile

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Express

Paperback (6)

120^.95 lei 22-36 zile

CREATESPACE –

120^.95 lei 22-36 zile

–

134^.80 lei 22-36 zile

CREATESPACE –

136^.49 lei 22-36 zile

Aegypan Press – 31 oct 2006

139^.07 lei 22-36 zile

–

217^.47 lei 22-36 zile

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 16 dec 2015

191^.10 lei 43-57 zile

Hardback (1)

230^.04 lei 43-57 zile

Aegypan Press – 30 sep 2006

230^.04 lei 43-57 zile

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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.