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Book review: 'The Passages of H.M.'
Jay Parini wrangles the often elusive Herman Melville onto the page in this deeply absorbing mix of fact, fiction and embedded literary quotation.
Doubleday: 454 pp., $26.95
"The time for me hasn't come yet: Some men are born posthumously," Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo." It's a statement that might have provided comfort to Herman Melville, whose books — including "Moby-Dick" and his more popular early tales of seafaring adventures, "Typee" and "Omoo" — had been out of print for years when he died in 1891, at age 72, in his Manhattan home.
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