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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. [1] The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States).
A second edition appears by the end of the month. May 1 – The earliest surviving mention of the composition of Moby-Dick appears in a letter Herman Melville writes to Richard Henry Dana Jr. May (late) – Alfred Tennyson 's poem In Memoriam A.H.H. , commemorating the death of his friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam in 1833 , is published by ...
Alton Locke is the story of a young tailor-boy who has instincts and aspirations beyond the normal expectations of his working-class background. He is intensely patriotic and has ambitions to be a poet.
In April 1925, the book was the first novel to be adapted for radio by the BBC. [7] The first movie adaptation of the novel was a 1919 silent film, Westward Ho!, directed by Percy Nash. [8] A 1988 children's animated film, Westward Ho!, produced by Burbank Films Australia, was loosely based on Kingsley's novel. [9]
Hannah Barker, Simon Burrows (ed.), Press, Politics and the Public Sphere in Europe and North America, 1760-1820, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Simon Burrows, « A Literary Low-Life Reassessed : Charles Théveneau de Morande in London, 1769-1791 », Eighteenth-Century Life, #22, 1er février 1998, p. 76-94.
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"Published at the end of 1850, The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner went through fourteen editions in two years, and may ultimately have been as popular as Uncle Tom's Cabin with 19th-century American readers". [2] Although it was first rejected by many publishers, Warner's first novel became an instant sensation among its readers.