Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. After his father’s death he left school for a series of clerical jobs before going to sea as a young man of nineteen. At twenty-one he shipped aboard the whaler “Acushnet” and began a series of adventures in the South Seas that would last for three years and form the basis for his first two novels, “Typee” and “Omoo.” Although these two novels sold well and gained for Melville a measure of fame, nineteenth-century readers were puzzled by the experiments with form that he began with his third novel, "Mardi, " and continued brilliantly in his ma
)
)
)
Moby-Dick (5)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
“As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow,” was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as “The Scarlet Letter,” “Walden,” and “Leaves of Grass,” this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achi…
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) (0)
Herman Melville presents a social satire of man’s misguided suspicions and perceptions in The Confidence Man. Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after his de…
Benito Cereno, Bartleby: The Scrivener, and the Encantadas (0)
In this collection readers will find three of Herman Melville’s most popular shorter works, “Benito Cereno,” “Bartleby: The Scrivener,” and “The Encantadas.” Considered to be one of Melville’s best short stories, “Benito Cereno” is a tale of the revolt aboard a Spanish ship. “Bartleby: The Scrivener” is a moral allegory…
White Jacket (0)
So with many odds and ends of patches-old socks old trowser-legs and the like-I bedarned and bequilted the inside of my jacket till it became all over stiff and padded as King James’s cotton-stuffed and dagger-proof doublet; and no buckram or steel hauberk stood up more stoutly.
Israel Potter (0)
Israel Potter well merits the present tribute a private of Bunker Hill who for his faithful services was years ago promoted to a still deeper privacy under the ground with a posthumous pension in default of any during life annually paid him by the spring in ever-new mosses and sward.
Typee (0)
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts – the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading e…
Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall-Street (0)
Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after his death his worth as a writer was recognized. Bartleby is a novella, which first appeared in Putnam’s Magazine. Th…
Bartleby (0)
Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after his death his worth as a writer was recognized. Bartleby is a novella, which first appeared in Putnam’s Magazine. Th…
Mardi, and a Voyage Thither (Volume 2) (0)
Volume: 2 Publisher: London Constable Publication date: 1922 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for…
