White-Jacket [Hardcover]

Herman Melville (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003 | ISBN-10: 1582872147 | ISBN-13: 978-1582872148

By the American novelist, essayist and poet, widely esteemed as one of the most important figures in American literature and best remembered today for his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851). His novel, White-Jacket (1850), is a fictionalized account of his time as a sailor on the USS United States.

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Novel by Herman Melville, published in 1850. Based on the author's experiences in 1834-44 as an ordinary seaman aboard the U.S. frigate United States, the critically acclaimed novel won political support for its stand against the use of flogging as corporal punishment aboard naval vessels. It is not known if White-Jacket was directly responsible for the cessation of flogging; however, members of Congress received copies of the novel during the Congressional debate over the issue, and flogging in the U.S. Navy was abolished that year. Subtitled The World in a Man-of-War, the novel depicts life aboard a typical frigate, the Neversink, and describes the tyrannies to which ship's officers subject ordinary seamen and the appalling conditions under which the seamen live. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 440 pages
• Publisher: North Books (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582872147
• ISBN-13: 978-1582872148
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,234,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)