Melville's Short Novels

€22.90


Shipping in 4/5 days

Product Information

ISBN9780393976410
AuthorsHerman Melville
PublisherWW Norton & Co
FormatPaperback
Number of pages432
Weight (kg)0.420
Publishing Date28/11/2001
Price (excl. tax)€21.60
Tax€1.30
Price (incl. tax)€22.90
Availability2 units in external warehouse

Product Description

Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt. A Selected Bibliography is included.