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Moby Dick

Moby Dick more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word ...

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Moby-Dick,or The whale

Moby-Dick,or The whale more books like this

by Herman Melville

Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word ...

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Billy Budd

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by Professor Herman Melville

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Billy Budd and Other Tales

Billy Budd and Other Tales more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Once the most popular of Melville's works, TYPEE is the story of a Yankee sailor who enters a Pacific paradise, but it is also an adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's stay in Polynesia, and an examination of good and evil, sensuality, and exotic rituals.

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Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories

Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Dan McCall (Editor)

Collected in this volume are "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "Billy Budd" - presented in the best texts available, those published during Herman Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author. Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. The ...

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Typee

Typee more books like this

by Herman Melville

Once the most popular of Melville's works, TYPEE is the story of a Yankee sailor who enters a Pacific paradise, but it is also an adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's stay in Polynesia, and an examination of good and evil, sensuality, and exotic rituals.

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Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Great Short Works of Herman Melville more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Melville's short fiction, which includes BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER, BENITO CERENO, and BILLY BUDD is considered among his greatest work.

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Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi

Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, G Thomas Tanselle

The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ...

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Billy Budd, Sailor more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Lee Rust Brown (Introduction by)

Melville's epic series of poems about the American Civil War includes an elegy to the dead of both sides and "The Coming Storm," about the death of Lincoln. Published in 1866, the poems were not a critical success--although now they are considered some of the best American war poetry ever written.

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Robert Milder (Editor)

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Omoo more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

This early, autobiographical adventure novel (1847) is a sequel to TYPEE, which preceded it by a year. Popular in its day, OMOO is a picaresque adventure that is suffused with Melville's disgust with the white missionaries who tried to impose their values on a culture they had no understanding of, and on colonialism in the South Seas in general. ...

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The Confidence Man more books like this

by Herman Melville

A confidence man and his equally shifty victims are characters in a satirical allegory that is meant to expose what Melville saw as the smug, mindless materialism of mid-century America. The events take place on a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day, reinforcing Melville's remark (in a letter to his friend Henry Savage) that "all that ...

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Pierre or the Ambiguities more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

A surprisingly domestic novel, PIERRE is about a nuclear family and its claustrophobic emotional dependencies. Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, PIERRE was savaged by critics upon its publication in 1852. This new edition is a return to an early version, cutting the portions that Melville added after ...

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Benito Cereno more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Originally published as a short story, and based on a true tale, this novella is about the attempts made by Amaso Delano of Massachusetts, the captain of ship, to aid another ship in distress--a slaveship under the command of the mortally ill Benito Cereno. Gradually, Captain Delano realizes that Cereno is actually a prisoner: the slaves have ...

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Herman Melville: Moby Dick (LL 5) more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Charles N Feidelson (Editor)

Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word ...

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White Jacket or the World in a Man of War more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Melville's 1843 trip home from the South Seas as an ordinary seaman on a man-of-war provided the basis for this novel. The macho world aboard the Neversink is presented as a microcosm of the world on shore and exposes some of the brutal customs of the American navy at the time.

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Billy Budd: 2and Other Stories

by Professor Herman Melville, Harold Beaver (Editor)

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He ...

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Typee: Volume One, Scholarly Edition more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford (Editor), G Thomas Tanselle (Editor)

Once the most popular of Melville's works, TYPEE is the story of a Yankee sailor who enters a Pacific paradise, but it is also an adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's stay in Polynesia, and an examination of good and evil, sensuality, and exotic rituals.

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Pierre: Or the Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

A surprisingly domestic novel, PIERRE is about a nuclear family and its claustrophobic emotional dependencies. Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, PIERRE was savaged by critics upon its publication in 1852. This new edition is a return to an early version, cutting the portions that Melville added after ...

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Moby-Dick: Or the Whale AND an Extract from Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville, Owen Chase

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.

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Bartleby the Scrivener more books like this

by Professor Herman Melville

Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, ...

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Typee more books like this

by Paul Lauter, Professor Herman Melville (Editor), Geoffrey Sanborn (Editor)

Once the most popular of Melville's works, TYPEE is the story of a Yankee sailor who enters a Pacific paradise, but it is also an adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's stay in Polynesia, and an examination of good and evil, sensuality, and exotic rituals.

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