Author
Herman Melville
American writer (1819–1891)
📅 1819–1891 · 19th century📚 4 titlesEN 2ES 2
Biography
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
Biography in Spanish
Herman Melville fue un escritor, novelista, poeta y ensayista estadounidense, del período del renacimiento estadounidense. Entre sus novelas más conocidas están Taipi (1846), basada en sus experiencias en la Polinesia, y la novela Moby Dick (1851), considerada su obra maestra y un clásico de la literatura universal, así como una de las Grandes Novelas Americanas.
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