Redburn
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For the English village, see Redburn, Northumberland. For the rural municipality in Saskatchewan, Canada, see Rural Municipality of Redburn No. 130.
Redburn: His First Voyage[1] is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work",[2] scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick".[3]
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Author | Herman Melville |
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Country | United States, England |
Language | English |
Genre | Travel literature |
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Preceded by | Mardi |
Followed by | White Jacket |
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