White Jacket Or, The World In A Man Of War by Herman Melville
The World in a Man-of-War
A young sailor's vivid, often ironic first-person account of life aboard a mid-19th-century American warship, blending colorful sketches of shipmates and sea adventures with pointed criticism of naval discipline, dehumanizing punishments, and bureaucratic absurdities. Through battles, storms, and routine duties the narrator meditates on hierarchy, camaraderie, vulnerability, and mortality, using humor and moral outrage to argue for reform in naval practice.
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- Published
- 1850
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- American
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- English
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