![]() ![]() A year and a half into his first whaling voyage, in 1842 he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived among the natives for a month. After having been a schoolteacher for a short time, he signed up for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. Not long after the death of his father in 1832, his schooling stopped abruptly. Born in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods, with Revolutionary War heroes for grandfathers. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's". ![]() "In Melville's manipulation of his reading", scholar Stanley T. Melville's writing is characteristic for its allusivity. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. ![]() The bulk of his writings was published between 18. Herman Melville (Aug– September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. ![]()
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