TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardwick,Elizabeth
TI  - Herman Melville
SN  - 0670891584 :
AV  - PS2386 .H34 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Novelists, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
N1  - "A Lipper/Viking book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 161)
N2  - The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public
ER  -