Works of Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Overview

15 works of Herman Melville
American writer best known for the novel Moby-Dick (1819-1891)

This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of Herman Melville. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.

Table of Contents:
Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
I and My Chimney
Israel Potter
John Marr and Other Poems
Mardi- and A Voyage Thither - Volume I
Mardi- and A Voyage Thither - Volume II
Moby Dick- or The Whale
Omoo - Adventures in the South Seas
Pierre - or The Ambiguities
Redburn. His First Voyage
The Confidence-Man
The Piazza Tales
Typee
White Jacket

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148820024
Publisher:	The Perfect Library
Publication date:	10/06/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
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