Herman Melville
White Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-War
Summary
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the narrator has created for the reader graphic symbols for class distinction, segregation and slavery aboard this microcosm of the world, the USS Neversink.
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Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mark Twain
G. K. Chesterton
Hans Christian Andersen
Rudyard Kipling
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