Andrew Delbanco
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Melville: His World and Work
Andrew Delbanco
With Moby-Dick Herman Melville set the standard for the Great American Novel, and with “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd he completed perhaps the greatest oeuvre of any of our writers. Now Andrew Delbanco, hailed by Time as “America’s best social critic,” uses unparalleled historical and critical perspective to give us both a commanding biography and a riveting portrait of the young nation.
The grandson of Revolutionary War heroes, Melville was born into a family that in the fledgling republic had lost…
