#redburn

[catullus101]

Edward Gorey's cover for Herman Melville's Redburn (1957)

[biblioklept]

Mass-market Monday | Herman Melville's Redburn

Redburn, Herman Melville. Doubleday Anchor Books (1957). Cover art by Edward Gorey. 301 pages. Redburn is as good a place as any to start with Melville, I suppose. From Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay “Melville in Love,” which prompted me to finally read Redburn: Melville’s state of mind is revealed…with a purity of expressiveness in the novel Redburn, one of his most appealing and certainly the most…

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[driveintheaterofthemind]

Vintage Hardcover - Redburn by Herman Melville

Art by Edward Gorey

Anchor (1957)

[ronk]

There’s a lot more to Herman Melville than just Moby-Dick.

Reading and rereading all of Mr. Melville now on my Kindle

[davemalan]

My contribution to From Hell's Heart. A beautiful compilation book of illustrations of the work of Herman Melville. Published by @a_wave_blue_world compiled by @ishmahab ⚓ My subject was Redburn. His first voyage. "With such thoughts as these I endeavored to shake off my heavy-heartedness; but it would not do at all; for this was only the first day of the voyage..." #HermanMelville #FromHellsHeart #illustration #digitalart #redburn #digitalpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/B2RqlnkFZ1y/?igshid=eoy8w4x9wctg

[blogdemocratesjr]

I wonder whether mankind could not get along without all these names, which keep increasing every day, and hour, and moment; till at last the very air will be full of them; and even in a great plain, men will be breathing each other's breath, owing to the vast multitude of words they use, that consume all the air, just as lamp-burners do gas. But people seem to have a great love for names; for to know a great many names, seems to look like knowing a good many things; though I should not be surprised, if there were a great many more names than things in the world. But I must quit this rambling, and return to my story.

Herman Melville, Redburn

[cinematic-literature]

The Squid and the Whale (2005) by Noah Baumbach 

Book title: Redburn (1849) by Herman Melville

[ronk]

“At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before”  ― Herman Melville, Redburn