![]() ![]() ![]() 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 up to a month. He then signed on as a common sailor for a merchant voyage to Liverpool in 1839. After the death of his father in 1832, his formal education stopped abruptly and the young man briefly became a schoolteacher. īorn in New York City, he was the third child of a merchant in French dry-goods who went bankrupt. Williams wrote, "was a transforming power comparable to Shakespeare's". ![]() ![]() Melville's way of adapting what he read for his own new purposes, scholar Stanley T. Melville's 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. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was almost forgotten during the last thirty years of his life. The bulk of his writings was published between 18. Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 â September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Travelogue, Captivity narrative, Sea story, Gothic Romanticism, Allegory, Tall tale Novelist, short story writer, teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet, customs inspector ![]()
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