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Description edit
Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Hawthorne: Add a description of this character.
- Ishmael
- Clarel
- Pierre
- Ahab
- Rolfe
- Byron
- Billy Budd
- Schiller
- Emerson
- Taji
- Arnold
- Cain
- Whitman
- John Marr
- Schlegel
- Marcuse
- Allan Melvill
- Matthiessen
- Moby Dick
- Lizzie
- Malcolm
- Ellis
- Kohut
- Adam
- Evert Duyckinck
- Ruth
- Isabel
- Nelson
- James
- Hershel Parker
- Schopenhauer
- Vere
- Curtis
- Ungar
- Starbuck
- Abrams
- Mardi
- Creech
- Claggart
- Herman
- Yillah
- Henry A. Murray
- Mapple
- Bezanson
- Manfred
- Porter
First Sentence edit
In Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, Mary McCarthy wonders what course her life might have taken if she and her siblings had not been orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918 and lodged with unsympathetic relatives at a young age.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Milder (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.3
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