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Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and a poet. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change.
Novels:
Typee
Omoo
Mardi
Redburn
White-Jacket
Moby-Dick
Pierre
Israel Potter
The Confidence-Man
Billy Budd, Sailor
Short Stories:
The Piazza
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Lightning-Rod Man
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
The Bell-Tower
The Apple-Tree Table
Jimmy Rose
I and My Chimney
The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
The Fiddler
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs
The Happy Failure
The 'Gees
The Two Temples
Daniel Orme
Poetry Collections:
Clarel – A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse
Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two
John Marr and Other Sailors
Bridgeroom Dick
Tom Deadlight
Jack Roy
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 Berg
The Enviable Isles
Pebbles
Poems from Mardi
We Fish
Invocation
Dirge
Marlena
Pipe Song
Song of Yoomy Gold
The Land of Love
Other Poems
Essays:
Fragments from a Writing Desk
Etchings of a Whaling Cruise
Authentic Anecdotes of "Old Zack"
Mr. Parkman's Tour
Cooper's New Novel
A Thought on Book-Binding
Hawthorne and His Mosses
Criticism:
Herman Melville by Virginia Woolf
Herman Melville's Moby Dick by D.H. Lawrence
Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo by D.H. Lawrence