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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville's passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville's own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the "iron rule" of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged...