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Herman Melville (1819–1891)

Autor(a) de Moby Dick

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About the Author

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young mostrar mais Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891

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Obras por Herman Melville

Moby Dick (1851) 34,547 exemplares
Billy Budd, Sailor (1924) 2,559 exemplares
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) 2,115 exemplares
Billy Budd and Other Stories (1924) 1,960 exemplares
Moby-Dick [Norton Critical Edition] (1851) 1,221 exemplares
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) 1,184 exemplares
Billy Budd and Other Tales (1961) 942 exemplares
Bartleby / Benito Cereno (1853) 922 exemplares
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852) 732 exemplares
Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby Dick (1983) 696 exemplares
Benito Cereno (1855) 663 exemplares
Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi (1982) 619 exemplares
White-Jacket (1850) 594 exemplares
Graphic Classics: Moby Dick (2002) 545 exemplares
Omoo (1847) 481 exemplares
Four Great American Classics (1969) 318 exemplares
Billy Budd / Benito Cereno (1855) — Autor — 259 exemplares
The Complete Shorter Fiction (1997) 237 exemplares
Mardi and a voyage thither (1849) 229 exemplares
Selected Tales and Poems (1950) 220 exemplares
The Piazza Tales (1856) 195 exemplares
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales (1961) 177 exemplares
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville (1928) — Autor — 164 exemplares
The Portable Melville (1952) 151 exemplares
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (2006) 140 exemplares
Four Short Novels (1959) 140 exemplares
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings (2001) 139 exemplares
The Maldive Shark (1600) 134 exemplares
Moby Dick, Volume 2 (1851) 110 exemplares
The Enchanted Isles (1854) 106 exemplares
Billy Budd & Typee (1958) 97 exemplares
Moby Dick, Volume 1 (1851) 93 exemplares
Moby Dick, Billy Budd (1984) 72 exemplares
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2 (2020) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
Moby Dick (1998) 61 exemplares
Moby Dick (Graphic Novel) (2014) — Source Author — 58 exemplares
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 1 (2017) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Selected Poems of Herman Melville (1964) 49 exemplares
Works of Herman Melville (1987) 49 exemplares
I And My Chimney (1984) 48 exemplares
Moby Dick (Graphic Classics) (2008) 45 exemplares
Best of Herman Melville (1984) 40 exemplares
Billy Budd and The Encantadas (1966) 39 exemplares
Moby Dick [Penguin Readers] (2006) 39 exemplares
On the Slain Collegians (1971) 27 exemplares
John Marr and Other Poems (1888) 25 exemplares
Billy Budd [Macmillan Readers] (1999) 25 exemplares
Cuentos completos (1900) 24 exemplares
Selected Poems of Herman Melville (1991) 23 exemplares
Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick (1851) 23 exemplares
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Benito Cereno en andere verhalen (1977) 20 exemplares
Moby Dick (Now Age Books) (1973) 18 exemplares
Three Stories (1967) 16 exemplares
The Lightning-Rod Man (1982) 15 exemplares
Short Stories (1996) 13 exemplares
Selected poems (1995) 12 exemplares
Herman Melville: voyages (1970) 12 exemplares
Moby Dick [adapted - Saddleback Illustrated Classics] (1999) — Original Author — 11 exemplares
The Piazza [short story] (2009) 11 exemplares
Opere scelte vol. 1 (1990) 10 exemplares
Billy Budd, marin / Daniel Orme (1980) 9 exemplares
Moby Dick (1984) 8 exemplares
Bartleby, el escribiente (2007) 8 exemplares
Opere scelte vol. 2 (1990) 8 exemplares
Journal Up the Straits (1935) 8 exemplares
The Bell-Tower (2019) 7 exemplares
Viajar (2011) 6 exemplares
Redburn, Vareuse-Blanche : Oeuvres, II (2004) — Autor — 6 exemplares
Diario italiano (2011) 6 exemplares
Poems of Herman Melville (1976) 6 exemplares
Le Paradis des célibataires (2002) 6 exemplares
Bartleby, le scribe (1853) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Poesie di guerra e di mare (1995) 5 exemplares
Melville : Œuvres (Tome 4)  (2010) 4 exemplares
Typee & Omoo (2014) 4 exemplares
Moby Dick (Spanish Edition) (2014) 4 exemplares
El estafador y sus disfraces (1980) 4 exemplares
Obras Completas I (2005) 4 exemplares
Herman Melville Collection (2008) 4 exemplares
MOBY DICK (2004) 4 exemplares
Hawthorne and His Mosses (2014) 4 exemplares
Œuvres, tome 1 (1997) 4 exemplares
Preferiría no hacerlo (2009) 3 exemplares
Timoléon (French Edition) (1970) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (abridged) (1969) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick: CD ROM (2008) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (1991) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (1987) 3 exemplares
Billy Budd and Other Tales (1970) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick (2000) 3 exemplares
Putnam's monthly 3 exemplares
Racconti (1853) 3 exemplares
Typee / Omoo / Weißjacke (1991) 3 exemplares
Pierre ya da Belirsizlikler (2006) 3 exemplares
L'intégrale des nouvelles (2021) 3 exemplares
Romance of Herman Melville (1931) 3 exemplares
L'impostore: una mascherata (1998) 2 exemplares
Modydick 2 exemplares
Veranda Oykuleri (2014) 2 exemplares
Le encantadas o isole incantate (2010) 2 exemplares
Meistererzählungen (detebe) (2011) 2 exemplares
Vareuse-Blanche (2020) 2 exemplares
Short Fiction 2 exemplares
JAQUETA BRANCA (2017) 2 exemplares
Cuentos de la Veranda (1997) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick. Oscar Junior (2019) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick = Moby Dick (2018) 2 exemplares
Nowele i opowiadania (2020) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick (1992) 2 exemplares
MOBY DICK Illustrated 2 exemplares
El jugador 2 exemplares
La veranda (2016) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick - Texte abrégé (2014) 2 exemplares
Melville on Melville 2 exemplares
John Marr (1922) 2 exemplares
Five tales (2000) 2 exemplares
První plavba (1849) 2 exemplares
Obras completas . III (2005) 2 exemplares
The Piazza Tales (2001) 2 exemplares
Emoji Dick; Or, 🐳 (2010) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick Libro secondo (1993) 2 exemplares
The Fiddler (2013) 2 exemplares
Chowder (American Roots) (2014) 2 exemplares
Poésies (2022) 1 exemplar
Il violinista (2012) 1 exemplar
El timador (1976) 1 exemplar
A bord (2004) 1 exemplar
Pezzi di mare: poesie (2011) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick'1 1 exemplar
Bartleby, el passant (1988) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 35/22N 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (1980) 1 exemplar
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1387) 1 exemplar
Art 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK 2 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK 1 1 exemplar
“The Martyr” 1 exemplar
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplar
PACHUCHE BET 1 exemplar
Profili di donne 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Melville: Six Short Novels (1975) 1 exemplar
Ca Voi Trang 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (2 Vols) (1929) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick Filet (2015) 1 exemplar
MOby Dick, dio 2 (2004) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick, dio 1 (2004) 1 exemplar
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Contos 1 exemplar
Annales 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Les encantades 1 exemplar
Cetologia 1 exemplar
Izrael Potter 1 exemplar
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Moby Dick (1991) 1 exemplar
Fives Tales 1 exemplar
Classic Comics: Moby Dick (1991) 1 exemplar
Obras 1 exemplar
Bartleby (film) 1 exemplar
Hôtel de la baleine (2015) 1 exemplar
Moby-Dick, etc 1 exemplar
Moby Dick, 2 tomos (1989) 1 exemplar
GK - Moby Dick (2015) 1 exemplar
Timoleon etc. (1891) 1 exemplar
The Tragedy of Mind (1945) 1 exemplar
Poèmes divers: (1876-1891) (1991) 1 exemplar
Four novels 1 exemplar
Le Campanile 1 exemplar
Modern Masquerade 1 exemplar
Short novels 1 exemplar
Typee & The Story of Toby (2012) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (Picture Books) (1997) 1 exemplar
Works 16 vols 1 exemplar
Shorter Novels 1 exemplar
Complete Stories 1 exemplar
El embaucador 1 exemplar
Toplu Öyküler (2019) 1 exemplar
Pierre o delle ambiguità (2015) 1 exemplar
Má první plavba 1 exemplar
Opere scelte (1991) 1 exemplar
Cojocelul alb 1 exemplar
Obras completas (2005) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (Abridged) (1962) 1 exemplar
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplar
Ne Denizsiz Ne Tütünsüz (2014) 1 exemplar
Uncollected Poems 1 exemplar
Timoleon and Other Ventures (2015) 1 exemplar
Redburn Illustrated (2020) 1 exemplar
Oszust (2019) 1 exemplar
"Shiloh" 1 exemplar
Recontar - Moby Dick (2009) 1 exemplar
Bartleby up Platt (2017) 1 exemplar
Derniers poèmes (2010) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick vagy (2012) 1 exemplar
Maldive Shark 1 exemplar

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Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Contribuidor — 335 exemplares
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Contribuidor — 289 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contribuidor — 274 exemplares
Six Great Modern Short Novels (1954) — Contribuidor — 273 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
The World's Greatest Short Stories (2006) — Contribuidor — 260 exemplares
The Civil War: The First Year Told By Those Who Lived It (2011) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contribuidor — 169 exemplares
Great Stories of the Sea & Ships (1940) — Contribuidor — 168 exemplares
The Civil War: The Second Year Told By Those Who Lived It (2012) — Contribuidor — 165 exemplares
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Contribuidor — 160 exemplares
The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019) — Contribuidor — 156 exemplares
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
Short Novels of the Masters (1948) — Contribuidor — 150 exemplares
Life in the Iron Mills [Bedford Cultural Editions] (1997) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
The Civil War: The Third Year Told by Those Who Lived It (2013) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contribuidor — 137 exemplares
Stories of the Sea (2010) — Contribuidor — 133 exemplares
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Contribuidor — 127 exemplares
American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) — Contribuidor — 119 exemplares
The Frankenstein Omnibus (1994) — Contribuidor — 101 exemplares
Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (1994) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
Poets of the Civil War (2005) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contribuidor — 91 exemplares
American Short Stories (1976) — Contribuidor, algumas edições91 exemplares
A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Seven Short Novel Masterpieces (1961) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
The Blithedale Romance [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2010) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 50 exemplares
Moby Dick [1998 TV mini-series] (1998) 47 exemplares
Horror Stories: Classic Tales from Hoffmann to Hodgson (2014) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
The Signet Classic Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
In Dreams Awake (1975) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Best Loved Short Stories of Nineteenth Century America (2003) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Marvel Illustrated: Moby Dick (2008) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
The Book of the Sea (1954) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told (2012) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Beau Travail [1999 film] (1999) — Original story — 30 exemplares
Mysterious Sea Stories (1985) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Best South Sea Stories (1964) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
American short novels (1960) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes (2021) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2019) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Short Stories of the Sea (1984) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (In Two Volumes) (1973) — Contribuidor, algumas edições25 exemplares
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
American gothic : An anthology 1787–1916 (1999) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Eight Short Novels (1967) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature (1960) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Best Sea Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Billy Budd [1962 film] (2007) — Original book — 21 exemplares
High Seas: Stories of Battle and Adventure From the Age of Sail (2002) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Penguin book of the ocean (2010) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
We, Robots (2010) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
The Blue Flower : Best Stories of the Romanticists (1955) — Autor — 19 exemplares
The Second Omnibus Of Crime: The World's Great Crime Stories (1932) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
A Treasury of Sea Stories (1948) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Saturday evening post book of the sea and ships (1978) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
World's Great Tales of the Sea (1944) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Four great American novels (1946) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Godey's Lady's Book, vol 42. January - June 1851 (1851) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
Moby Dick [2011 TV mini series] (2011) — Original book — 15 exemplares
Disney Moby Dick, starring Donald Duck (2013) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature (1947) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Melville (1958) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Great Short Works of the American Renaissance (1967) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Pola X (2001) 7 exemplares
Come Not, Lucifer! A Romantic Anthology (1945) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Valas (2019) — Alkuteoksen kirjoittaja — 5 exemplares
Vijf Amerikaanse novellen (1985) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Representative American Short Stories — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
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Famous stories of five centuries (1934) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Wide Sea (1962) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
The Word Lives On: A Treasury of Spiritual Fiction (1951) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Die edlen Wilden (1989) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Moby Dick [1930 film] — Orginal author — 3 exemplares
Twelve short novels (1976) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Historier fra de syv have — Autor, algumas edições2 exemplares
Famous American Stories (1958) — Contribuidor, algumas edições1 exemplar
Stories of the South Seas (1928) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Undying Past — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Moby Dick #717 (Dell Four Color) (1956) — Autor — 1 exemplar
Sehnsucht: "Südsee" : Gedichte und mehr — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Melville, Herman
Nome legal
Melville, Herman
Outros nomes
Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
Data de nascimento
1819-08-01
Data de falecimento
1891-09-28
Localização do túmulo
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County, New York, USA
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Causa da morte
cardiovascular disease
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (mostrar todos 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
Educação
New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838)
Ocupações
bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (mostrar todos 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840)
Relações
Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend)

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Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.

Membros

Discussions

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Pierre: or, Bucolic Reading em Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (Dezembro 2009)

Críticas

This was one of my first audiobooks. I was lucky. A great book narrated by a great voice. An unforgettable experience. William Hootkins' "Call me Ishmael" will hook you to the book literally from its first phrase.
 
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Tom Quirk Contributor, Commentary, Editor
Thomas Trent Translator
Pauline Kael Contributor
R. W. B. Lewis Editor, Afterword
John Updike Introduction
Abraham Tucker Contributor
Carl Van Vechten Contributor
John W. Shroeder Contributor
Susan M. Ryan Contributor
Brian Higgins Contributor
Scott Norsworthy Contributor
Thomas L. McHaney Contributor
Dennis Marnon Contributor
Stephen D. Hoy Contributor
Joel Barlow Contributor
James Hall Contributor
Margaret Coel Contributor
Orville Dewey Contributor
Jonathan A. Cook Contributor
Henry Scott Tuke Cover artist
Lalit Kumar Illustrator
Daniel G. Hoffman Contributor
Hermann Fay Illustrator
Al Fiorentino Illustrator
Bruce Hodges Activities by
James Prunier Illustrator
ארז וולק Translator
Mead Schaeffer Illustrator
David Herd Introduction
Clifton Fadiman Introduction
Boardman Robinson Illustrator
Fritz Güttinger Translator
William M. Gibson Introduction
Nathaniel Philbrick Introduction
Jody Hewgill Cover artist
Kurt Schmischke Illustrator
Irene Hirsch Translator
Cesare Pavese Translator
Garrick Palmer Illustrator
Matthias Jendis Translator
Phoebe Judge Narrator
Alfred Kazin Introduction
Rockwell Kent Illustrator
Frank Muller Narrator
Barry Moser Illustrator
Klaus Buhlert Director
Tony Millionaire Illustrator
Paul Boehmer Narrator
Hans Seiffert Übersetzer
Nemi D'Agostino Translator
Alice Seiffert Übersetzer
Andrew Delbanco Introduction
Robert Gibbings Illustrator, Introduction
Johan M. Palm Translator
Sabine Wilharm Illustrator
Auke Leistra Translator
Piet Clement Illustrator
William Plomer Introduction
Richard Moering Translator
Klaus Ensikat Illustrator
Jacques Boullaire Illustrator
William Hodges Cover artist
Ilse Hecht Translator
Maurice Sendak Illustrator
Roy Fuller Introduction
Julian Markels Introduction
Joyce Carol Oates Introduction
William Thorp Afterword
Pierre Leyris Translator
Christa Schuenke Übersetzer
Edward Gorey Cover artist
Elizabeth Hardwick Introduction
Maxwell Geismar Introduction
Robert Shore Illustrator
Bill Bragg Illustrator
Peter Coviello Introduction
Jay Leyda Editor
Laure Dupont Translator
John Arcudi Foreword
Antonio Frasconi Cover designer
T. Johnson Front cover illustration
Pascal Cloëtta Illustrator
Bruguera Editor
Gianni De Conno Illustrator
Rex Warner Introduction
Hans Paetsch Narrator

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