" Melville " drew his material from his experiences, from his imagination, and from a variety of travel books when the memory of his experiences were inadequate.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.

Herman Melville called this species sulphur-bottom in his novel Moby-Dick due to an orange-brown or yellow tinge on the underparts from diatom films on the skin.

However, Herman Melville happily lived with the Marquesan Typees for a time after the other two tribes on the island told him they were cannibals.

In the early 1850s, in Pierre, Herman Melville focuses on a Hamlet-like character's long development as a writer.

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill.

Melville left little direct information about the events of this 18-month cruise, although his whaling romance, Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale, probably gives many pictures of life on board the Acushnet.

For three weeks he lived among the Typee natives, who were called cannibals by the two other tribal groups on the island — though they treated Melville very well.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Lemuel Shaw, on August 4, 1847 ; the couple honeymooned in Canada.

Melville was tremendously inspired and encouraged by his new relationship with Hawthorne during the period that he was writing Moby-Dick ( dedicating it to Hawthorne ), though their friendship was on the wane only a short time later, when he wrote Pierre there.

Indeed, The New York Day Book on September 8, 1852, published a venomous attack on Melville and his writings headlined HERMAN MELVILLE CRAZY.

Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, age 72.

A later retrospective article did appear on October 6 in the same paper referring to him as " the late Hiram Melville ", but this appears to have been a typesetting error.

) See the 2006 Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence-Man for more detail on Melville and religion than in Parker's 2002 volume.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

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* 1950: Les Enfants terribles directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, script by Jean Cocteau based on his novel

No rifle scopes, no bench rests, no prone ( lying down on the front ) positions, but shooting, as famed rifle barrel maker, Harry Melville Pope ( 1861 – 1950 ), once stated, " standing on his hind legs and shooting like a man.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

Near contemporaries Melville Davisson Post and Anna Katherine Green wrote the earliest known stories that might be described as historical whodunnits, although both also wrote mysteries with contemporary settings as well.

Melville, though comparatively little known during his lifetime, was one of the most powerful influences in the contemporary art of his day, especially in his broad decorative treatment with water-colour, which influenced the Glasgow Boys.

This view was met with ridicule, but was later supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville in their 1848 monograph The Dodo and Its Kindred, which attempted to separate myth from reality.

System and its Creator Melville Dewey by University of British Columbia's mission, the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

** Clarel by Herman Melville ( 1876 )

Many contemporaries of Godard and Truffaut followed suit, or achieved international critical acclaim with styles of their own, such as the minimalist films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville, the Hitchcockian-like thrillers of Henri-Georges Clouzot, and other New Wave films by Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

He lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795 and was brought up by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

Gray whaling in Magdalena Bay was revived in the winter of 1855-56 by several vessels, mainly from San Francisco, including the ship Leonore, under Captain Charles Melville Scammon.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

Typee and Omoo gave Melville overnight notoriety as a writer and adventurer, and he often entertained by telling stories to his admirers.

Melville spent years writing a 16, 000-line epic poem, Clarel, inspired by his earlier trip to the Holy Land.

Jay Leyda, better known for his work in film, spent more than a decade gathering documents and records for the day by day Melville Log ( 1951 ).

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

With references from Boas and Ruth Benedict, he was accepted as a graduate student by Melville J. Herskovits at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Greenland by the Polar Sea: The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.

* In the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville many references are made to phrenology and the narrator identifies himself as an amateur phrenologist.

As Hesmondhalgh and Melville wrote, " Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualizing samples and slices of both the most respected black music ( Public Enemy ) and the tackiest pop ( quoting David Cassidy ’ s “ How Can I Be Sure ?”).

The same version was published in the United States ; however, critical references to missionaries and Christianity were removed by Melville from the second US edition at the request of his American publisher.

Later additions included a " Sequel: The Story of Toby " written by Melville explaining what happened to Toby.

In a scene where the Dolly is boarded by young women from Nukuheva, Melville originally wrote: