Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

by Aaron Sachs

Book Overview

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography

A double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them--and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis

Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691215413
• ISBN13: 9780691215419
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"