White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War

By Melville, Herman

Book Id: WPLBN0002950863
Format Type:
File Size: 504.91 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Author:	Melville, Herman
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Sea stories
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Historic Publication Date:	1850
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Melville, B. H. (1850). White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the narrator has created for the reader graphic symbols for class distinction, segregation and slavery aboard this microcosm of the world, the USS Neversink. (Introduction by James K. White)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Fiction, Sea stories