White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories by Herman Melville

White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories

Herman Melville

336 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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The mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature--all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby-Dick. The symbolism of the color white, in...

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