Redburn -- Herman Melville

Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, <i>Redburn</i> 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, "<i>Redburn</i> is rich in masterful portraits--a gallery of wild colors, pretensions and falsehoods, fleeting associations of unexpected tenderness. . . . <i>Redburn</i> is not a document; it is a work of art by the unexpected genius of a sailor, Herman Melville." <p/>This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition of 1849.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Herman Melville<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 09/10/2002<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.66lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.96h x 5.30w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375760044<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Elizabeth Hardwick</b> is the author of many books and essays, including <i>American Fictions</i> (available from Modern Library Paperbacks) and <i>Herman Melville</i>. She lives in New York City.</p><p></p>