Herman Melville

"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little an…

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. The book is based on the author's fourteen months' s…

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel&apos…

I and My Chimney by Herman Melville <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular ti…

&quot;Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues …

The Piazza published by Herman Melville in 1856. The sketch describes Melville&apos;s farmhouse, called Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Mass. Supposedly, the other tales in the collection, including «B…

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, al…

Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam&apo…

Melville&apos;s epic tale of one man versus a great white whale will delight Melville devotees as well as those who have yet to sail on this adventure in this mesmerizing new recording read by Jo…

Moby Dick or The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael&apos;s narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for rev…

Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville&apos;s first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been «the main inducement» in a…

Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polyne…

&quot;The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam&apos;s Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical «Sketches» on the En…

Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from pri…

&quot;The Lightning-Rod Man" appeared in 1854, in Putnam&apos;s Monthly Magazine no. 20 (August). What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills…

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. The novel portrays a Canterbury Tales-style group of steamboat passeng…