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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the 1850 novel by Herman Melville that was based on his life in the United States Navy aboard the Frigate The USS United States and the stories of other sailors. The novel focuses on a frigate named the USS Neversink and its exploits on the seas. White Jacket became instrumental in abolishing flogging aboard US Navy ships doe to its graphic descriptions. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
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White Jacket
White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the 1850 novel by Herman Melville that was based on his life in the United States Navy aboard the Frigate The USS United States and the stories of other sailors. The novel focuses on a frigate named the USS Neversink and its exploits on the seas. White Jacket became instrumental in abolishing flogging aboard US Navy ships doe to its graphic descriptions. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
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White Jacket

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Overview

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the 1850 novel by Herman Melville that was based on his life in the United States Navy aboard the Frigate The USS United States and the stories of other sailors. The novel focuses on a frigate named the USS Neversink and its exploits on the seas. White Jacket became instrumental in abolishing flogging aboard US Navy ships doe to its graphic descriptions. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781974132997
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 08/02/2017
Pages: 410
Sales rank: 510,564
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic and the abundance of allusion extends to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature and the visual arts.
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