Works of Herman Melville: (100+ Works) Includes Moby Dick, Omoo, Billy Budd, Sailor, The Piazza Tales and more

by Herman Melville

Overview

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.

Table of Contents

List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
Herman Melville Biography

Novels:
Billy Budd, Sailor
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Israel Potter
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I and II
Moby Dick; or The Whale
Omoo
Redburn, His First Voyage
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War

Poetry:
John Marr And Other Poems
Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War
Poems From Clarel
Poems From Mardi
Poems From Timoleon
Sea Pieces and Other Poems

Stories:
Hawthorne and His Mosses
I and My Chimney
The Piazza Tales:
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Bell-tower
Benito Cereno
The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles
The Lightning-rod Man
The Piazza

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605011684
Publisher:	MobileReference
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Mobi Collected Works
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	294,879
File size:	3 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