Herman Melville
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Herman Melville
By Herman MelvilleThe classic works of literature contained in each of these volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings.
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Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, the Piazza Tales, the Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose (LOA #24)
By Herman MelvilleAn extended meditation on faith, hope, and charity as these are manifested on board a Mississippi riverboat one April Fools' Day, it presents a menagerie of Americans buying and selling, borrowing and lending, believing and mistrusting, as ...
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Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi
By Herman Herman Melville"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."Three compelling romances of the South Seas by Herman Melville-Typee-Omoo-Mardi
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Herman Melville: Voyages
By Herman Melville, Stanley HendricksHerman Melville: Voyages
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Herman Melville: Omoo, Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales (Ivory Classics)
By Herman MelvilleFrom 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, most notably "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853), "The Encantadas" (1854), and "Benito Cereno" (1855). These and three other stories were collected in 1856 as The Piazza Tales.
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Herman Melville: Typee and White Jacket (Ivory Classics)
By Herman MelvilleHerman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
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Herman Melville: the Confidence-Man and Redburn (Ivory Classics)
By Herman MelvilleThis novel, subtitled His Masquerade, has won general acclaim in modern times as a complex and mysterious exploration of issues of fraud and honesty, identity and masquerade.
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Herman Melville
By Herman MelvilleIf his record as a sailor was far from exemplary, Melville's travels did provide the raw material for much of his fiction. In January of 1841, he sailed from Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet and deserted eighteen months later on the ...
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Herman Melville: A Companion
By Corey Evan ThompsonRobert D. Madison, Alma A. MacDougall, Joel Myerson, Mark Niemeyer, Hershel Parker, Leland Phelps, Amy Puett, Gordon Roper, Roma Rosen, Robert C. Ryan, Robert A. Sandberg, Merton M. Sealts, Jr., Morris Star, Aretta J. Stevens, ...
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Herman Melville
By Karen Bush GibsonHerman Melville
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Herman Melville: A Companion
By Corey Evan ThompsonSince its inception, it has published works by recognized political and literary writers including the Brontë sisters, Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Henry James, Jack London, Herman Melville, ...
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Herman Melville
By Harold BloomA collection of critical essays on Melville and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.
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Herman Melville: A Reference Guide, 1931-1960
By Brian HigginsHerman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of the reviews are reprinted from...
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Herman Melville: A Biography
By Hershel ParkerEarly in 1886 Melville received from James Billson a “ semi - manuscript ” edition of Fitzgerald's free translation of the Rubáiyát , a gift that only confirmed his prior sense of Omar Khayyám as “ that sublime old infidel ” ( his words ...
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Herman Melville: 1819-1851
By Hershel Parker... common pleas in behalf of a slave , Robert Lucas , who had come into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts by arriving on the United States and was being held in custody . The purser , Edward Fitzgerald , a Virginian , had enlisted his ...
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Herman Melville: A Half Known Life
By John BryantMelville inaccurately identifies the sculpture as George IV and places it in the wrong location. Although the pedestal for the sculpture of George III was formally dedicated in St. George's Square in 1809, general Liverpudlian ...
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Herman Melville
By Kevin J. HayesHayes opens the book with an exploration of the revival of interest in Melville’s work thirty years after his death, which coincided with the aftermath of World War I and the rise of modernism.
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Herman Melville: Stargazer
By Brett ZimmermanIn Herman Melville: Stargazer Brett Zimmerman investigates Melville's knowledge and literary uses of astronomy, especially within the thematic contexts of Mardi, Clarel, and Billy Budd.
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Herman Melville: An Introduction
By Wyn Kelley... Peter Gibian, Robin Grey, Bruce Harvey, Diana Henderson, Henry Hughes, Pawel Jedrzejko, Henry Jenkins, Carolyn Karcher, A. Robert Lee, Maurice S. Lee, Caroline Levander, Robert S. Levine, Tia Lombardi, Paul Lyons, Robert D. Madison, ...
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Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text
By Katie McGettiganEqually strange is Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee (1836), a novel that explores and critiques Jacksonian society through a narrator who is able to transfer his consciousness into dead bodies. Moving between bodies—including those ...