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Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative by Hershel Parker
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The... -
The Powell Papers: A Confidence Man among the Anglo-American Literati by Hershel Parker
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.00This uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Thomas Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery... -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker 9780801881855
Booksplease Price: £44.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume 2, 1851-1891 by Hershel Parker 9780801881862
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £32.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism by Wai-chee Dimock
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view... -
The Textual Condition by Jerome J. McGann
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.30Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend... -
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 9780393285000
Booksplease Price: £25.66The text here is based on Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford's 1967 edition, footnoted to include biographical discoveries. Reviews, letters by Melville and belated praise is collected, and a wealth... -
Billy Budd Melville Volume 11 by Northwestern University Press
Booksplease Price: £54.26The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a... -
Billy Budd by Herman Melville 9780810111134
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £78.99The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, Billy Budd, Sailor is often treated as a... -
The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville 9780393979275
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. "Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of... -
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane 9780393950243
Booksplease Price: £15.95This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893. Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Note on the Text." Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane... -
Peckinpah: THE WESTERN FILMS--A RECONSIDERATION by Paul Seydor 9780252068355
Booksplease Price: £24.29The book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation-now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, it was a recognition of...