# Melville: A Novel

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- Book: [Melville: A Novel](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-giono/melville-a-novel) ([Melville: A Novel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-giono/melville-a-novel.md))
- Authors: [Jean Giono](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-giono), [Edmund White](https://www.bookquiver.com/edmund-white), [Paul Eprile](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-eprile)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-137-5
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2017-09-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Originally published to promote his French translation of Moby-Dick, Jean Giono's Melville: A Novel is an astonishing literary compound of fiction, biography, personal essay, and criticism. In the...