Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography
These things may possibly compensate his spirit for forty years of neglect during his lifetime, followed by thirty years of oblivion after his death. In the meantime, the same country that ignored him, living - the same native city that for got that he had not yet died, until it discovered that he had - will now tardily honor him with widespread curiosity.
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