Redburn
Author(s): Herman Melville
Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, "Redburn" charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction. In her Introduction, Elizabeth Hardwick writes, ""Redburn" is rich in masterful portraits--a gallery of wild colors, pretensions and falsehoods, fleeting associations of unexpected tenderness. . . . "Redburn" is not a document; it is a work of art by the unexpected genius of a sailor, Herman Melville." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition of 1849.
General Information
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- : Random House Publishing Group
- : Random House Publishing Group
- : 0.299
- : 01 January 2002
- : 180mm X 135mm X 23mm
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Herman Melville
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 813.3
- : 416
More About The Product
""Redburn", recalling the cruel memories of [Melville's] youth, was the first bitter cry of his maturity. . . . The book has the wry humour of the grown man. . . . Redburn was a victory." --Lewis Mumford
Elizabeth Hardwick is the author of many books and essays, including "American Fictions" (available from Modern Library Paperbacks) and "Herman Melville." She lives in New York City.