Herman Melville: The Complete Works: Moby-Dick, The Piazza Tales,Typee, Omoo, White-Jacket... (Bauer Classics)

by Herman Melville, Bauer Books

Overview

Because of his extensive experience as a seaman and a whaler, his descriptions of life out at sea were comprehensive and unflinchingly accurate. Melville was also able to communicate the fear and terror of a whale hunt, a feat that would make his greatest work, Moby Dick, a literary tribute to the whaling industry.

This books contains the complete works of Melville:

• Typee: A Romance of the South Seas.
• Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas.
• Mardi: and A Voyage Thither.
• Redburn: His First Voyage.
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War.
• Moby-Dick: or, The Whale.
• Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.
• Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile.
• The Piazza Tales.
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
• Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
• John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces.
• Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse.
• The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches.
• Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces.
• Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two.
• Essays.
• Uncollected Poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835865087
Publisher:	Bauer Books
Publication date:	12/06/2022
Series:	All Time Best Writers , #15
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15