Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Auteur de Moby Dick
A propos de l'auteur
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young afficher plus Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891
Séries
Œuvres de Herman Melville
Herman Melville. Redburn : Ou sa première croisière, traduit de l'anglais par Armel Guerne.… (1983) 705 exemplaires
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd (1984) 536 exemplaires
Moby-Dick (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) 276 exemplaires
Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick (graphic adaptation by Bill Sienkiewicz) (1990) — Original Author — 110 exemplaires
Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors… (2019) 90 exemplaires
Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd and Other Writings (Library of America College Editions) (2000) 84 exemplaires
Selected writings of Herman Melville: complete short stories, Typee [and] Billy Budd, foretopman (1952) 79 exemplaires
Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Moby-Dick, White-Jacket, Israel Potter & Redburn (1928) 40 exemplaires
Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (1987) 26 exemplaires
Shorter Novels of Herman Melville, Benitoo Cereno, Bertley the Scrivener, The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, Billy… (1942) 18 exemplaires
Grolier Classics: Moby Dick/Life of Samuel Johnson/The Social Contract, The Odyssey (1955) 16 exemplaires
The works of Herman Melville. v. 13. Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver. 16 exemplaires
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville, Vol. 6) (1988) 13 exemplaires
Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : An Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic (2002) 13 exemplaires
Tre scene da Moby Dick tradotte e commentate da Alessandro Baricco. testo inglese a fronte (2009) 11 exemplaires
In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (2011) 10 exemplaires
Moby-Dick, or, the whale ; and, An extract from Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the… 10 exemplaires
Moby-Dick. An authoritative text, before Moby-Dick: international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville,… 10 exemplaires
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Moby Dick or the Whale introduction by Clifton Fadiman illustrated by Boardman Robinson (1943) 9 exemplaires
Moby Dick (Short Classics) 8 exemplaires
Norfolk Isle & the Chola widow 7 exemplaires
Moby-Dick: An authoritative text; Reviews and letters by Melville; Analogues and sources; Criticism. Edited by Harrison 6 exemplaires
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings: The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 13 (2017) 6 exemplaires
The letters of Herman Melville 6 exemplaires
Bartleby, le scribe [Version adaptée puis illustrée par Stéphane Poulain] (1853) — Auteur — 5 exemplaires
Reading & Training : Herman Melville : Moby Dick [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 5 exemplaires
Die Reisetagebücher: Reise von New York nach London 1849 / Reise ins Heilige Land 1856/57 / Reise an Bord des… (2001) 4 exemplaires
The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of… (2011) 4 exemplaires
Moby Dick, or the White Whale, an Abridged Edition 4 exemplaires
Herman Melville: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 3 exemplaires
Herman Melville's MOBY DICK Leather Bound Book - Classic Books - Collectible Books #6520-017 (1977) 3 exemplaires
Moby Dick. Erster Teil. Vollständige Ausgabe mit einem Nachwort von Rudolf Sühnel (1977) 3 exemplaires
Herman Melville (World's Greatest Short Stories) 3 exemplaires
Putnam's monthly 3 exemplaires
De beste verhalen van Herman Melville 3 exemplaires
Herman Melville: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1938) 3 exemplaires
"Moby Dick", der weiße Wal, nach Herman Melville, übersetzt und für die Jugend bearbeitet von Thomas Trent 3 exemplaires
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems 3 exemplaires
O meu primeiro Moby Dick 2 exemplaires
Moby Dick 2 exemplaires
Short Fiction 2 exemplaires
Ahab, der Kapitän 2 exemplaires
Melville - Le cento pagine più belle 2 exemplaires
Herman Melville: Selected Stories (Unabridged) 2 exemplaires
Obras completas, 3 vols. 2 exemplaires
Die große Kunst, die Wahrheit zu sagen. Von Walen, Dichtern und anderen Herrlichkeiten (2005) 2 exemplaires
Melville on Melville 2 exemplaires
Ficção curta completa 2 exemplaires
Poemas - Herman Melville (Portuguese Edition) 2 exemplaires
El jugador 2 exemplaires
MOBY DICK Illustrated 2 exemplaires
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville (2005-12-19) (1866) 2 exemplaires
THE ORIGINALS: MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE 2 exemplaires
The Town Ho´s Story (1851) 2 exemplaires
The Tartarus of Maids (Short Story) 2 exemplaires
El vendedor de pararrayos 2 exemplaires
Billy Budd, Benito Cereno and The Enchanted Isles 2 exemplaires
Moby Dick 2 exemplaires
Benito Cereno: Il tartaro delle vergini: Il paradiso degli scapoli: Bartleby lo scrivano 2 exemplaires
Modydick 2 exemplaires
Moby Dick and Other Works (Halcyon Classics) 2 exemplaires
Best of Melville: Moby-Dick D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick Typee The Piazza Tales (The Piazza Bartleby Benito… (2013) 2 exemplaires
BILLY BUDD IL MARINAIO TASCABILI ECONOMICI NEWTON 1993 2 exemplaires
De betoverde eilanden / Bartleby 2 exemplaires
La mesa de madera de manzano / El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas (2013) 2 exemplaires
A Ilíada e a Guerra de Tróia 2 exemplaires
The Indispensable Melville 2 exemplaires
Moby Dick (eNewton Classici) 1 exemplaire
Os dramas do mar. Benito Cereno. Billy Budd 1 exemplaire
אוסף סיפורי ים ונהר אחד — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - Great Illustrated Classics 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - Die Jagd nach dem weissen Walfisch 1 exemplaire
Herman Melville, complete and unabridged 1 exemplaire
100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1] 1 exemplaire
Redburn-Classic Original Edition(Annotated) 1 exemplaire
Herman Mellville's Billy Budd: Foretopman 1 exemplaire
Profili di donne 1 exemplaire
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 2 1 exemplaire
The Plague Ship. (short story) 1 exemplaire
Ich und mein Kamin eine Erzählung 1 exemplaire
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Annales 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd and Other Tales 1 exemplaire
Herman Melville. Cocorico !: et autres contes 1 exemplaire
Le cento pagine più belle di Melville 1 exemplaire
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplaire
Povesti i rasskazy ; Stikhotvorenia 1 exemplaire
“The Martyr” 1 exemplaire
Moby-Dick of The Whale 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd & Benito Cereno, (Leather-bound Collector's edition, paintings by Robert Shore), hc, 2004 1 exemplaire
MOBY DICK 1 1 exemplaire
MOBY DICK 2 1 exemplaire
Art 1 exemplaire
Erzählungen. 1 exemplaire
Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 2 1 exemplaire
Giacchetta bianca o Del mondo d'una nave da guerra 1 exemplaire
Great Classic Stories III: 22 Unabridged Classics 1 exemplaire
Tulák po ostrovech 1 exemplaire
Мобі Дік (Ukrainian Edition) 1 exemplaire
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Bartleby, the Scrivener 1 exemplaire
Izrael Potter 1 exemplaire
PACHUCHE BET 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd 1 exemplaire
Benito Cereno 1 exemplaire
Covek od poverenja 1 exemplaire
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Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
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Cocorico et autres contres 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick Histórias em quadrinhos 1 exemplaire
OS IMORTAIS DA LITERATURA UNIVERSAL - MOBYDICK 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories (Bantam Classic) 1 exemplaire
The Sea: Excerpts from Herman Melville. 1 exemplaire
Ca Voi Trang 1 exemplaire
Great Books of the Western World - V.48 - Melville 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - Adaptación de Carolina Aros 1 exemplaire
The Great Classics for Children: Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
The complete stories 1 exemplaire
Illustrated Classic Editions Mini Books Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Contos 1 exemplaire
First Student's Classics: Moby-Dick 1 exemplaire
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Moby Dick Longmans' Simplified English Series 1 exemplaire
Everyman's library, edited by Ernest Rhys. Fiction 1 exemplaire
Las estatuas de Roma 2010 1 exemplaire
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd read by Christopher Timothy 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The New and Definitive Text, Edited from an Analysis and Independent… (1963) 1 exemplaire
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville: Benito Cereno - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Bartleby the Scrivener - The Encantadas (1928) 1 exemplaire
The Great Writers (Herman Melville) moby-Dick 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick & Billy Budd (Longmeadow Press) 1 exemplaire
The Originals Moby-Dick, or The Whale 1 exemplaire
Čovek od poverenja 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick "Moby Dick" 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick Vol.2 1 exemplaire
Oszust 1 exemplaire
Ενκαντάδας-Μπάρτελμπυ-Μπίλλυ Μπάντ 1 exemplaire
The World's Great Classics: Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural - 2 Volumes 1 exemplaire
Cetologia 1 exemplaire
TYPPE 1 exemplaire
MOBY DICK.TRADUCTION DE L'AMERICAIN PAR HENRIETTE GUEX-ROLLE.CHRONOLOGIE ET PREFACE PAR ROBERT SILHOL. (1970) 1 exemplaire
Benito Cereno et autres contes de la Véranda 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick (two chapters) 1 exemplaire
Amazing illustrated classics: Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Maravilhas da Literatura - Vol.5 - Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick'1 1 exemplaire
MELVILLE Bartleby el escribiente 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick or, The Whale, signed limited edition, #71 1 exemplaire
Benito Centeno 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick by Herman Melville Paperback Book 1 exemplaire
The 'Gees 1 exemplaire
Jimmy Rose 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural 1 exemplaire
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs 1 exemplaire
The Essential H. Melville - 9 Books in One Volume: Including Moby-Dick, Typee, The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno &… 1 exemplaire
Antique Rare Billy Budd and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville ~ The Heritage Press w/Slipcase [Hardcover] Herman… 1 exemplaire
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (2016) 1 exemplaire
Rare Heritage Press ~ Billy Budd/Benito Cereno ~ Herman Melville ~ Slipcase/Notes (1777) 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick [Adapté - Jacques Marcireau] 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick (Adventure) - Intermediate 1 exemplaire
MOBY DICK, RAGAZZINI 1 exemplaire
Il venditore di parafulmini (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplaire
Complete Shorter Fiction, The / Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
La torre campanaria (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplaire
Works 16 vols 1 exemplaire
Shorter Novels 1 exemplaire
Complete Stories 1 exemplaire
Reisefresken dreier Brüder: Dichter, Maler, Müssiggänger: Tagebuch einer Reise nach Europa und in die… (1991) 1 exemplaire
Bartleby. Erzählungen. Aus dem Englischen von Marianne Graefe u.a. Mit einem Nachwort von Karl-Heinz… (1981) 1 exemplaire
Four novels 1 exemplaire
10 Books by Melville 1 exemplaire
El cuento norteamericano del siglo XIX 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick-Junior Classics 1 exemplaire
Obras 1 exemplaire
Billy in the darbies: A facsimile from the manuscript of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor : printed as a… (1991) 1 exemplaire
Billy Bud and Six Other Tales 1 exemplaire
Weranda i inne równie prawdziwe opowieści 1 exemplaire
Masa din lemn de mar 1 exemplaire
Authentic Anecdotes of Old Zack 1 exemplaire
Poesie scelte (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplaire
Four Great Novels by Herman Melville, (Complete and Unabridged). Including Moby Dick, Typee, a Romance of the South… (2013) 1 exemplaire
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplaire
Un berceau de verdure chez les Arsacides 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick Libro terzo 1 exemplaire
Short novels 1 exemplaire
Hooked on Phonics: Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - Illustrierte Klassiker, Nr. 37 1 exemplaire
Modern Masquerade 1 exemplaire
Bartleby (film) 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick Big Read (Audiobook) 1 exemplaire
Vortoppmann Billy Budd und Erzählungen 1 exemplaire
Bartleby. Erzählungen (Benito Cereno - Das Mahl der Armen - Das Junggesellenparadies - Der Geiger - Bartleby - Die… 1 exemplaire
Le Campanile 1 exemplaire
Snowflakes (Annotated) 1 exemplaire
The Birth-Mark (Annotated) 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick [Audible] 1 exemplaire
La Charge de la Baleine Blanche 1 exemplaire
Galapagos Landscapes: Scenic Photographs from Ecuador's Galapagos Archipelago, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles,… 1 exemplaire
I due templi (in Le Encantadas e altri racconti) 1 exemplaire
"Shiloh" 1 exemplaire
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. The Fiddler. Jimmy Rose / Τρεις απόκληροι :… (2010) 1 exemplaire
Benito Cereno et autres nouvelles de la véranda 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick, etc. [Abridged.] 1 exemplaire
Herman Melville: The Complete Shorter Fiction 1 exemplaire
mpilly mpant kai alles istories 1 exemplaire
The Man-of-War Hawk [poem] 1 exemplaire
El escribiente y otros relatos 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick, EDCON abridged 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd, and other prose pieces; (The works of Herman Melville. Standard edition. vol. XIII) 1 exemplaire
Má první plavba 1 exemplaire
Poesie (testo inglese a fronte) 1 exemplaire
7: Billy Budd, marinaio: Racconti e frammenti: Diari 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick or The Whale, Illistrated by Maxwell Kent 1 exemplaire
Redburn, Israel Potter und sämtliche Erzählungen, Nachwort, Erläuterungen und aus dem Amerikanischen von… (1967) 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick - vol. 26 1 exemplaire
Bartleby le Scribe - L'île de Noroflk et la Veuve Chola - Le Marchand de Paratonnerres - Benito Cereno 1 exemplaire
Las Islas Encantadas y bartleby 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick (Adapted) (Illustrated Classics Editions) 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd & Piazza Tales - Herman Melville - The Franklin Library - Alan Price Drawings - Editors Notes (1982) 1 exemplaire
Μόμπι Ντικ - Classics Illustrated 1 exemplaire
Selected poems of Herman Melville 1 exemplaire
Journal of a cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the frigate United States, with notes on Herman Melville 1 exemplaire
Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick 35/22N 1 exemplaire
Paraiso de canibais 1 exemplaire
Illustrated Classics Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Fives Tales 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd. Opowieść wtajemniczonego 1 exemplaire
Cojocelul alb 1 exemplaire
Abenteuer in der Südsee: Taipi Omoo: Ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben (German Edition) (2014) 1 exemplaire
Billy Budd Sailer and The Piazza Tales 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick . Volumen I 1 exemplaire
Works of Herman Melville. Moby Dick, Omoo, Billy Budd, Sailor, The Piazza Tales & more (Mobi Collected Works) (2007) 1 exemplaire
An Imposition of Whales 1 exemplaire
Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville 1 exemplaire
Fragments from a Writing Desk 1 exemplaire
Uncollected Poems 1 exemplaire
El embaucador 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick eller Den vita valen 2 1 exemplaire
EL TEMERARIO Y OTROS POEMAS [Próxima aparición] 1 exemplaire
Complete Works of Herman Melville "American Novelist, Short Story Writer and Poet from the Renaissance Period"! 19… (2016) 1 exemplaire
Moby-Dick, etc 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick . Volumen II 1 exemplaire
Redburn ou sa premiere croisiere 1 exemplaire
Moby Dick Extracts (For The Bodleian Library) 1 exemplaire
A Thought on Book-Binding 1 exemplaire
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale also read novelette: Bartleby, the Scrivener -"I would prefer not to." depresive character 1 exemplaire
Graphic Classic #6: Moby Dick 1 exemplaire
Maldive Shark 1 exemplaire
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Melville. opere scelte 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Melville, Herman
- Nom légal
- Melville, Herman
- Autres noms
- Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
- Date de naissance
- 1819-08-01
- Date de décès
- 1891-09-28
- Lieu de sépulture
- Cimetière de Woodlawn, Bronx, New York, Etats-Unis
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, Etats-Unis
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, Etats-Unis
- Cause du décès
- cardiovascular disease
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (tout afficher 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA - Études
- New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838) - Professions
- bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (tout afficher 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840) - Relations
- Metcalf, Paul (Arrière petit-fils)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (Ami)
Dana, Richard Henry (Ami) - Courte biographie
- Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.
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