{"product_id":"book-melville-in-love","title":"Book: Melville In Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMelville In Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby Dick \u003c\/strong\u003eby Michael Shelden\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville’s canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville’s passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville’s own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the “iron rule” of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond. Emboldened by the thrill of courting Sarah in secret, the pleasure of falling in love, and the excitement of spending time with literary luminaries—like Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel Hawthorne—Melville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive Moby-Dick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45754213761222,"sku":"6","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0223\/1425\/files\/51r5r9jNGmL.webp?v=1776950456","url":"https:\/\/store.whalingmuseum.org\/en-gb\/products\/book-melville-in-love","provider":"The New Bedford Whaling Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}