The Collected Works of Herman Melville: The Complete Works PergamonMedia

by Herman Melville

Overview

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 9800 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Moby Dick; Or, The Whale • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street • The Piazza Tales • The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade • Typee: A Romance of the South Seas • Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Moby Dick; Or, The Whale • White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War • Pierre; or The Ambiguities • Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Redburn. His First Voyage • Typee • I and My Chimney • Mardi: and A Voyage Thither • Israel Potter • John Marr and Other Poems • I and my Chimney • Typee • Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • THE PIAZZA • BARTLEBY • BENITO CERENO • THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN • THE ENCANTADAS • THE BELL-TOWER • Introductory Note • John Marr And Other Poems • JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS • BRIDEGROOM DICK • TOM DEADLIGHT JACK ROY • Sea Pieces • THE HAGLETS • THE AEOLIAN HARP • TO THE MASTER OF THE "METEOR" • FAR OFF SHORE • THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK • THE FIGURE-HEAD • THE GOOD CRAFT "SNOW BIRD" • OLD COUNSEL • THE TUFT OF KELP • THE MALDIVE SHARK • TO NED • CROSSING THE TROPICS • THE BER • THE ENVIABLE ISLES • PEBBLES • Poems From Timoleon • LINES TRACED UNDER AN IMAGE OF AMOR THREATENING • THE NIGHT MARCH • THE RAVAGED VILLA • THE NEW ZEALOT TO THE SUN • MONODY • LONE FOUNTS • THE BENCH OF BOORS • ART • THE ENTHUSIAST • SHELLEY'S VISION • THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS • THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES • HERBA SANTA • OFF CAPE COLONNA • THE APPARITION • L' ENVOI • Supplement • Poems From Battle Pieces • THE PORTENT • etc.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783956701009
Publisher:	PergamonMedia
Publication date:	04/06/2015
Series:	Highlights of World Literature
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	9800
File size:	5 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