Author:Herman Melville
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American novelist, essayist, and poet 
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Herman Melville
Works
Novels
- Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, (1846)
- British Edition (transcription project)
- American Edition with slight censorship (transcription project)
- Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, (1847)
- Mardi: And a Voyage Thither, (1849)
- Redburn: His First Voyage, (1849)
- White-Jacket: or, the World in a Man-of-War, (1850)
- Moby-Dick, (1851)
- Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, (1852)
- Isle of the Cross, (1853) unpublished & lost
- Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, (1855)
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, (1857)
- Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative, (1924)
Short Stories & Sketches
- The Piazza Tales (1856)
- Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! (December 1853)
- Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs (June 1854)
- The Happy Failure (July 1854)
- The Fiddler (September 1854)
- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids (April 1855)
- Jimmy Rose (November 1855)
- The 'Gees (March 1856)
- I and My Chimney, (March 1856)
- The Apple-Tree Table (May 1856)
Unpublished in his lifetime
- The Two Temples
- Daniel Orme
Criticism
- Hawthorne and His Mosses, (Uncollected; Published in New York Literary World, August 24 1850)
Notebooks, letters & journals
- Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands
- Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography, Meade Minnigerode, 1922, IA
Poetry
- The Martyr, (1865)
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, (1866)
- Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, (1876)
- John Marr and other poems, (1888) IA
- Shiloh: A Requiem, (1862)
Works about Melville
- "Melville, Herman," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- Herman Melville : Mariner and Mystic, Raymond M. Weaver, 1921, IA
- "Melville, Herman," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature: Herman Melville's Moby Dick
- D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature: Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo
- The Best Sea Story Ever Written, 1914, Archibald MacMechan IA
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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