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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20050322
Author:Novak, Frank G., Jr.

HERSHEL PARKER. Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume I, 1819-1851. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xx + 941 pp.

HERSHEL PARKER. Herman Melville: A Biography: Volume II, 1851-1891. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvii + 997 pp.

Two volumes, nearly a thousand pages each, Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville is a massive compilation of documentation and detail. A work of exhaustive thoroughness, this leviathanic life of Melville merits the description. Volume II completes the narrative biography that Parker undertook two ...

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