{"product_id":"melville","title":"Melville","description":"If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eMelville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded -- in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan -- an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond\u003ci\u003e Moby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville's life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48829162979533,"sku":"9780375702976","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_3b1984c1-3427-48dd-a962-32c2a74082c5.jpg?v=1790198339","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/melville","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}