White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories AUTH-195607 Now in tradepaper

Now in tradepaper

I shouldn't even consider his offer

Author: Michel Falcon

the inheritance left to her by her old-fashioned Granny has one stipulation before she can collect: she has to be married

and to go on the offensive against the onslaught of negative stereotypes

White Jacket by Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories AUTH-195607 Now in tradepaperThe mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby Dick. The symbolism of the color white, introduced in this novel in the form of the narrator's jacket, is more fully expanded upon in Moby Dick, where it becomes an all encompassing "blankness." Melville's (best known for his classic whaling novel)