White-Jacket

Auteurs

• Herman Melville

Paramètres

• Aventure
• Classiques
• Fiction
• Fiction historique
• Histoire
• The world's classics

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In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war United States, and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket, a success both as a story and as an expos 'e of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware.