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Melville: A Novel
Melville: A Novel | Jean Giono
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In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous (…more)
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Melville: A Novel | Jean Giono
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Mehso-so

Very quirky little novel that revolves around Melville's visit to London to sell his novel White Jacket. Giono was the French translator of Moby Dick, and Melville started out as a rather hybrid personal essay about Melville that turned into a novel. Lost me in the middle section, a wholly fabricated story about some Irish nationalist. Required reading for any Melville fanatic, but no reason for anyone else to even look at it.