MELVILLE: HIS WORLD AND WORK
by DELBANCO, ANDREW (MELVILLE, HERMAN about)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375403140
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403149
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Durham, California, United States
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Andrew Delbanco is the author of The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil, Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now, and The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope, all of which were New York Times Notable Books. The Puritan Ordeal won the Lionel Trilling Award from Columbia University. He has edited Writing New England, The Portable Abraham Lincoln, volume two of The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (with Teresa Toulouse), and, with Alan Heimert, The Puritans in America. His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Raritan, and other journals. In 2001 Delbanco was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2003 was named New York State Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities. He is a trustee of the National Humanities Center and the Library of America and has served as vice president of PEN American Center. Since 1995 he has been the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
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- Wonderful Books by Mail (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 135082
- Title
- MELVILLE: HIS WORLD AND WORK
- Author
- DELBANCO, ANDREW (MELVILLE, HERMAN about)
- Illustrator
- DEWEY, RODNEY H. PHOTO
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition"; EX LIBRARY COPY
- ISBN 10
- 0375403140
- ISBN 13
- 9780375403149
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf.;.BORZOI BOOK
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Moby Dick, Melville, Herman, American Literature, Whale, Whaling, Ship, Biography
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