Herman Melville
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Language
English
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The Piazza Tales (1856) is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. Before publication, five of its six stories appeared in Putnam's Monthly during a period of productivity with which Melville sought to achieve popular success as a writer of literary fiction. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work, and contemporary...
Author
Series
Publisher
A. & C. Boni
Pub. Date
1924
Physical Desc
vii, 353 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widely believed to be among Melville's most popular works, "Redburn, His First Voyage" follows the young Wellingborough Redburn on his first journey at sea. A boy just on the verge of manhood, Redburn's decision to become a sailor is apparently at odds with his gentle upbringing, which has made him in many ways unprepared for the hardships of his chosen profession. He is unmercifully initiated into the life of a sailor by his fellow crewmen, a trying...
3) Typee
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Language
English
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Description
The story is closely based on the authors four-month sojourn with a group of South Sea Islanders, the Typees, after he and a companion deserted their whaling ship. -- Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
xxiv, 385 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener,"...
Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
510 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early American writer Herman Melville is best known for his great American novel "Moby Dick." However, Melville was also a prolific and honest short story writer. His stories play with irony, twisting the fates of his protagonists and making sure that the reader is left with a deep sense of wonder and enlightenment. Many of his works are set from an "outsider's" perspective of immigrants in early America, which is interesting considering that Melville...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 320
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
990 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise physical detail and rich metaphysical speculation in an unorthodox...
Author
Publisher
Imprint Society
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
135 p. illus. 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account about the revolt on a 19th-century Spanish slavery ship, Benito Cereno was first published in three installments in 1855. Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr. called the story "an oblique comment on those prevailing attitudes toward blacks and slavery in the United States that would ultimately precipitate civil war between North and South." The famous question of what had cast such a shadow upon Cereno was used by American...
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Series
Library of America volume 24
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
1478 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vol. 24.
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
1333 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the early 1840s"--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Penguin Classics edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 335 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals...
Author
Series
Wiley and Putnam's library of American books volume no. 13-14
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
1846
Edition
Revised edition,, with a sequel.
Physical Desc
2 pts. in 1 v. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
15) Omoo
Author
Publisher
Heritage Press
Pub. Date
[1967]
Physical Desc
xix, 272 p. illus. 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on Melville's travels in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is told by an unnamed narrator who boards a whaling vessel bound for Tahiti. The narrator becomes involved in a mutiny and afterward is imprisoned on the island of Tahiti. His observations of the island, its way of life and the customs of the natives follow. Omoo" is the sequel to Melville's hugely successful Typee: A Peep at...
17) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
1437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
47 Points*(Moby Dick.).
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred Knopf
Pub. Date
1930
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 416 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. Published the year after Moby-Dick-a critical and commercial failure-Pierre: or, The Ambiguities is a psychological novel in the tradition of Gothic fiction. Melville struggled to find a publisher who would pay him in advance for the book, and its appearance prompted widespread ridicule and condemnation in the press, with some critics claiming that Melville himself had...
Author
Series
Works volume 4
Language
English
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"Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence.
