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White Jacket; or, The World in A Man-of-War
by Melville, Herman
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1920. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1920s reissue. No jacket. Boards lightly soiled and slightly bowed, top page ridge stained, ink name on front free endpaper. 374 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. White-Jacket, novel by Herman Melville, published in 1850. Based on the author's experiences in 1834–44 as an ordinary seaman aboard the U.S. frigate United States, the critically acclaimed novel won political support for its stand against the use of flogging as corporal punishment aboard naval vessels. It is not known if White-Jacket was directly responsible for the cessation of flogging; however, members of Congress received copies of the novel during the congressional debate over the issue, and flogging in the U.S. Navy was abolished that year. Subtitled The World in a Man-of-War, the novel depicts life aboard a typical frigate, the Neversink, and describes the tyrannies to which ship's officers subject ordinary seamen and the appalling conditions under which the seamen live.--Britannica
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- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2330056
- Title
- White Jacket; or, The World in A Man-of-War
- Author
- Melville, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reissue
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A.L. Burt Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Size
- 0x0x0
- Weight
- 0.81 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICAN LITERATURE WORLD LITERATURE CLASSICS 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE MAN-OF-WAR
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