These novels established Melville’s early reputation as a writer of adventures-a reputation Melville could not shake during his life, even as his work grew stranger, and became infused with philosophical and religious themes. Melville gathered material on several long sea voyages, which was fictionalized later in the novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847).
He taught high school in various New York State locations, and later decided to try his fate on the open sea as a sailor, much as his narrator Ishmael does in Moby Dick. As a result, Melville attended several schools in New York State, but never learned any one trade. Coming from a relatively well-to-do New York family, with aristocratic connections on his mother Maria Gansevoort’s side, Melville’s father Allan lost a great deal of money when Herman was a young man. Herman Melville’s writings have granted him worldwide renown since his death, at the end of the 19th century, but he was read only fitfully by the American public during his lifetime, and his greatest literary achievements were received with a mixture of puzzlement and disregard.
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