Herman Melville destroyed nearly all of his letters, burned his manuscripts, and shied from photographers. But his beloved farm, and the books he wrote there, offer some insight into his life.
, which I have done for money—being forced to it, as other men are to sawing wood.”
” and Melville’s “Redburn” . Augusta Melville, reading Ellis’s book, found its characters implausible. “Whoever heard of such a man as that Mr. Ashley, & of such a woman, as that wife of his, & of such girls as those five daughters?—No one but Mrs. Ellis.” She was the sort of female reader who had an appetite for adventure. “Have you seen Dr. May’s new work ‘The Barber’?” she asked a friend.
“I have a sort of sea-feeling here in the country, now that the ground is all covered with snow,” Melville wrote from Arrowhead, in December of 1850. “I look out my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic. My room seems a ship’s cabin; & at nights when I wake up & hear the wind shrieking, I almost fancy there is too much sail on the house, & I had better go on the roof & rig the chimney.
Every day, on board the Pequod, Ishmael looks out for a glimpse of Ahab, with a peg leg made out of whalebone. Finally, in Chapter 28, the captain emerges:
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