White-Jacket : Or, The World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics)
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?We find in [Melville?s works] revolt and acceptance, unconquerable and endless love, the passion for beauty, language of the highest order?in short, genius.? ?Albert Camus
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Published in 1850, White Jacket is both a retelling of Melville's adventures as a seaman on the man-of-war United States and an expose of naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware. His portrait of the autocratic, male regime aboard the Neversink accurately records the cruelties and injustices of the world at large. This edition contains explanatory notes and a glossary of sailing terms.
White-Jacket : Or, The World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics)
White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics),Herman Melville,John Dugdale,Tony Tanner,Oxford University Press, USA,0192838016,19th century,American - General,Classics,Fiction,History, Naval,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Melville, Herman, 1819-1891,Sea stories,United States,19th century fiction,Literary Criticism & Collections / American,Literature/English | American Literature | 19th C
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