Redburn
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Redburn a story by Herman Melville. The author returned to the tone of his first novels,Typee (1846) and Omoo (1849). Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a refined youth among brutal sailors. This theme of a youth confronted by realities and evils for which he is unprepared is a prominent one in Melville's works.
It contains one of the notable examples of spontaneous combustion in literature, along with Dickens' Bleak House.
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