Herman Melville
by Raymond M. Weaver
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About this eBook
- Author
- Weaver, Raymond M. (Raymond Melbourne), 1888-1948
- Title
- Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic
- Credits
- Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50461
- Release Date
- November 15, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HERMAN MELVILLE Mariner and Mystic
- 2.CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
- 3.CHAPTER II GHOSTS — MELVILLE’S GRANDFATHERS
- 4.CHAPTER III PARENTS AND EARLY YEARS — MARIA GANSEVOORT MELVILLE
- 5.CHAPTER IV A SUBSTITUTE FOR PISTOL AND BALL
- 6.CHAPTER V DISCOVERIES ON TWO CONTINENTS
- 7.CHAPTER VI PEDAGOGY, PUGILISM AND LETTERS — For the Democratic Press FRAGMENTS FROM A WRITING DESK No. 1 — For the Democratic Press FRAGMENTS FROM A WRITING DESK No. 2
- 8.CHAPTER VII BLUBBER AND MYSTICISM
- 9.CHAPTER VIII LEVIATHAN — “TOBY” RICHARD TOBIAS GREENE
- 10.CHAPTER IX THE PACIFIC
- 11.CHAPTER X MAN-EATING EPICURES—THE MARQUESAS
- 12.CHAPTER XI MUTINY AND MISSIONARIES—TAHITI
- 13.CHAPTER XII ON BOARD A MAN-OF-WAR
- 14.CHAPTER XIII INTO THE RACING TIDE
- 15.CHAPTER XIV ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AGAIN
- 16.CHAPTER XV A NEIGHBOUR OF HAWTHORNE’S — ART
- 17.CHAPTER XVI THE GREAT REFUSAL
- 18.CHAPTER XVII THE LONG QUIETUS — THE APPARITION
- 19.BIBLIOGRAPHY — CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAGAZINES, ETC.
- 20.INDEX OF NAMES — Transcriber's Note
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