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Redburn : His First Voyage.
Title:
Redburn : His First Voyage.
Author:
Melville, Herman.
ISBN:
9781776517824
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (425 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Foreword -- I - How Wellingborough Redburn's Taste for the Sea was Born and Bred in Him -- II - Redburn's Departure from Home -- III - He Arrives in Town -- IV - How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece -- V - He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging Along the Wharves -- VI - He is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-Pen, and Slushing Down the Top-Mast -- VII - He Gets to Sea and Feels Very Bad -- VIII - He is Put into the Larboard Watch -- Gets Sea-Sick -- And Relates Some Other of His Experiences -- IX - The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converses with Them -- X - He is Very Much Frightened -- The Sailors Abuse Him -- And He Becomes Miserable and Forlorn -- XI - He Helps Wash the Decks, and then Goes to Breakfast -- XII - He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called Jackson -- XIII - He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like it -- But Changes His Mind -- XIV - He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin -- XV - The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe -- XVI - At Dead of Night He is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail -- XVII - The Cook and Steward -- XVIII - He Endeavors to Improve His Mind -- And Tells of One Blunt and His Dream Book -- XIX - A Narrow Escape -- XX - In a Fog He is Set to Work as a Bell-Toller, and Beholds a Herd of Ocean-Elephants -- XXI - A Whaleman and a Man-Of-War's-Man -- XXII - The Highlander Passes a Wreck -- XXIII - An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious Young Lady -- XXIV - He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jago's Monkey -- XXV - Quarter-Deck Furniture -- XXVI - A Sailor a Jack of All Trades -- XXVII - He Gets a Peep at Ireland, and at Last Arrives at Liverpool -- XXVIII - He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper.

XXIX - Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors -- XXX - Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid Over Some Outlandish Old Guide-Books -- XXXI - With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll through the Town -- XXXII - The Docks -- XXXIII - The Salt-Droghers, and German Emigrant Ships -- XXXIV - The Irrawaddy -- XXXV - Galliots, Coast-Of-Guinea-Man, and Floating Chapel -- XXXVI - The Old Church of St. Nicholas, and the Dead-House -- XXXVII - What Redburn Saw in Launcelott's-Hey -- XXXVIII - The Dock-Wall Beggars -- XXXIX - The Booble-Alleys of the Town -- XL - Placards, Brass-Jewelers, Truck-Horses, and Steamers -- XLI - Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither -- XLII - His Adventure with the Cross Old Gentleman -- XLIII - He Takes a Delightful Ramble into the Country -- And Makes the Acquaintance of Three Adorable Charmers -- XLIV - Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to the Favorable Consideration of the Reader -- XLV - Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn, and Carries Him Off to London -- XLVI - A Mysterious Night in London -- XLVII - Homeward Bound -- XLVIII - A Living Corpse -- XLIX - Carlo -- L - Harry Bolton at Sea -- LI - The Emigrants -- LII - The Emigrants' Kitchen -- LIII - The Horatii and Curiatii -- LIV - Some Superior Old Nail-Rod and Pig-Tail -- LV - Drawing Nigh to the Last Scene in Jackson's Career -- LVI - Under the Lee of the Long-Boat, Redburn and Harry Hold Confidential Communion -- LVII - Almost a Famine -- LVIII - Though the Highlander Puts into No Harbor as Yet -- She Here and there Leaves Many of Her Passengers Behind -- LIX - The Last End of Jackson -- LX - Home at Last -- LXI - Redburn and Habby, Arm in Arm, in Harbor -- LXII - The Last that was Ever Heard of Harry Bolton.
Abstract:
Sea voyages and the vagaries of life on a ship are constant themes in the work of Herman Melville. In the novel Redburn, Melville sharply contrasts the refined sensibilities of the title character, an upper-class American youth, with the coarse manners of his Liverpudlian shipmates. The novel is notable for its finely drawn characters and piercing social criticism.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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