Melville: His World and WorkWith Moby Dick Herman Melville set the standard for the Great American Novel, and with Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd he completed perhapsthe greatest oeuvre of any of our writers. Now Andrew Delbanco, hailed by Time as Americas best social critic, uses unparalleled historical and critical perspective to give us both a commanding biography and a riveting portrait of the young nation. The grandson of Revolutionary War heroes,