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| title | : | Redburn, His First Voyage : Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service Writings of Herman Melville ; 4 |
| author | : | Melville, Herman.; Hayford, Harrison.; Tanselle, G. Thomas; Parker, Hershel. |
| publisher | : | Northwestern University Press |
| isbn10 | asin | : | 0810100169 |
| print isbn13 | : | 9780810100169 |
| ebook isbn13 | : | 9780585379111 |
| language | : | English |
| subject | Sea stories--Fiction, Adventure fiction. | |
| publication date | : | 1969 |
| lcc | : | PS2380.F68 1969eb |
| ddc | : | 813/.3 |
| subject | : | Sea stories--Fiction, Adventure fiction. |
Page i
THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE
The NorthwesternNewberry Edition
VOLUME FOUR
Page ii
EDITORS
HARRISON HAYFORD, General Editor
HERSHEL PARKER, Associate General Editor
G. THOMAS TANSELLE, Bibliographical Editor
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ASSOCIATE
RICHARD COLLES JOHNSON
CONTRIBUTING SCHOLARS | |
WALTER E. BEZANSON | LELAND PHELPS |
MERLIN BOWEN | AMY PUETT |
WATSON G. BRANCH | GORDON ROPER |
RICHARD HARTER FOGLE | ROMA ROSEN |
ELIZABETH S. FOSTER | ROBERT C. RYAN |
WILLIAM H. GILMAN | MERTON M. SEALTS, JR. |
HOWARD HORSFORD | MORRIS STAR |
LEON HOWARD | WILLARD THORP |
WILLIAM H. HUTCHINSON | NATHALIA WRIGHT |
ADVISORY BOARD
JOHN HURT FISHER For the Modern Language Association of America
WILLIAM M. GIBSON For the Center for Editions of American Authors
LEON HOWARD For the MLA American Literature Group
WILLARD THORP For the MLA American Literature Group
MOODY E. PRIOR For Northwestern University
ROBERT PLANT ARMSTRONG For Northwestern University Press
LAWRENCE W. TOWNER For The Newberry Library
Page iii
Redburn
Page iv
This volume edited by
HARRISON HAYFORD
HERSHEL PARKER
G. THOMAS TANSELLE
Historical Note by
HERSHEL PARKER
Contributing Scholar
MERLIN BOWEN
Page v
His First Voyage
Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service
HERMAN MELVILLE
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
and
THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY
Evanston and Chicago
1969
Page vi
THE RESEARCH reported herein was prepared pursuant to a contract with the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, under the provisions of the Cooperative Research Program, and is in the public domain .
Publication of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of THE WRITINGS OF HERMAN MELVILLE has been made possible through the financial support of Northwestern University and its Research Committee, and of The Newberry Library. This edition originated with Northwestern University Press, Inc., which reserves all rights against commercial reproduction by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying processes .
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 67-21601
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING, 1969
SECOND PAPERBACK PRINTING, 1975
THIRD PAPERBACK PRINTING, 1978
FOURTH PAPERBACK PRINTING, 1984
FIFTH PAPERBACK PRINTING, 1993
CLOTH EDITION, ISBN 0-8101-0013-4
PAPER EDITION, ISBN 0-8101-0016-9
Page vii
TO MY YOUNGER BROTHER,
Thomas Melville ,
Now a Sailor on a Voyage to China,
THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED
Page ix
Chapter 1 How Wellingborough Redburns Taste for the Sea Was Born and Bred in Him | |
Chapter 2 Redburns Departure from Home | |
Chapter 3 He Arrives in Town | |
Chapter 4 How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece | |
Chapter 5 He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging along the Wharves | |
Chapter 6 He Is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-Pen, and Slushing Down the Top-Mast | |
Chapter 7 He Gets to Sea, and Feels Very Bad | |
Chapter 8 He Is Put into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-Sick; and Relates Some Other of His Experiences | |
Chapter 9 The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converses with Them | |
Chapter 10 He Is Very Much Frightened; the Sailors Abuse Him; and He Becomes Miserable and Forlorn | |
Chapter 11 He Helps Wash the Decks, and Then Goes to Breakfast | |
Chapter 12 He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called Jackson |
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Chapter 13 He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like It; but Changes His Mind | |
Chapter 14 He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin | |
Chapter 15 The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe | |
Chapter 16 At Dead of Night He Is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail | |
Chapter 17 The Cook and Steward | |
Chapter 18 He Endeavors to Improve His Mind; and Tells of One Blunt and His Dream-Book | |
Chapter 19 A Narrow Escape | |
Chapter 20 In a Fog He Is Set to Work as a Bell-Toller, and Beholds a Herd of Ocean-Elephants | |
Chapter 21 A Whaleman and a Man-of-Wars-Man | |
Chapter 22 The Highlander Passes a Wreck | |
Chapter 23 An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious Young Lady | |
Chapter 24 He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jagos Monkey | |
Chapter 25 Quarter-Deck Furniture | |
Chapter 26 A Sailor a Jack of All Trades | |
Chapter 27 He Gets a Peep at Ireland, and at Last Arrives at Liverpool | |
Chapter 28 He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore Clipper | |
Chapter 29 Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors | |
Chapter 30 Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid over Some Outlandish Old Guide-Books | |
Chapter 31 With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll through the Town | |
Chapter 32 The Docks | |
Chapter 33 The Salt-Droghers, and German Emigrant Ships | |
Chapter 34 The Irrawaddy |
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