Melville: His World and Work

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Herman Melville wrote one of the most important American novels of all time: Moby-Dick. But he wasn't recognized as a towering literary figure until 40 years after his death. Andrew Delbanco, the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, studies Melville's life and works in a new biography.

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Music: “Passage to Paradise,” “Crossroads for the World” and “Sea and Sky” from Sea Power: A Global Journey, an original score composed by Michael Whalen

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