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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Mod Lib Redburn
• Author: Herman Melville
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780375760044
• ISBN: 0375760040
• ID: 04603226
• Publisher: Random House
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 130 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. January 2002

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