BETTER Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick by Michael Shelden book audio shop page author

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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating MelvilleвЂ™s canonical work, Moby-Dick, was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.Herman MelvilleвЂ™s epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its authorвЂ™s rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his вЂњwicked book.вЂќ Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahabs mad pursuit of the great white whale.In The Darkest Voyage, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of MelvilleвЂ™s passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained MelvilleвЂ™s own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the вЂњiron ruleвЂќ of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond. Emboldened by the thrill of courting Sarah in secret, the pleasure of falling in love, and the excitement of spending time with literary luminariesвЂ”like Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel HawthorneвЂ”Melville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive Moby-Dick. Filled with the rich detail and immense drama of MelvilleвЂ™s secret life, The Darkest Voyage tells the gripping story of how one of our greatest novelists found his muse.
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BETTER Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick by Michael Shelden book audio shop page author

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