BOOKS by Professor Herman Melville

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1	Moby Dick more books like this by Professor Herman Melville For this sesquincentennial edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of "Moby-Dick" has been footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries. A section on whaling and whalecraft features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings and an engraving of Tupai Cupa. This image introduces a new section that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Moby Dick or the Whale more books like this by Professor Herman Melville In the world of books, there are hundreds of timeless classics. But only one collection of great works is a classic in itself - "Britannica's Great Books". This 60-volume set brings you centuries of celebrated writings from the greatest minds of all time, including Plato, Shakespeare, Swift, Freud, Hemingway and Twain. "Britannica's Great Books" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.12! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Billy Budd more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Bloom's Reviews are a acclaimed advancement to the standard chapter-by-chapter plot summaries provided by most study guides. Each Review saves a student time by presenting the latest research, from noted literary scholars, in a practical and lucid format, enabling students to concentrate on improving their knowledge and understanding of the work ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Billy Budd and Other Tales more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories more books like this by Professor Herman Melville The tales in this selection of Melville's shorter works were all written after the publication of "Moby-Dick" and after "Pierre", his first commercial failure. They are products of Melville's complex imagination in its maturity, possessing the power of his earlier work. Included here are "Bartleby", "The Encantadas", "Benito", "Cereno", "The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Billy Budd, Sailor more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly suggestive story. "The texts are impeccably accurate. . . ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Typee more books like this by Professor Herman Melville "Typee" is the first "romance" of the South Seas, a semi-autobiographical account of life in the Marquesas Islands in the 1840s. A blend of personal experience and the narratives of explorers and missionaries, it influenced many later writers on the Pacific, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London. Melville himself deserted a whaling ship ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Great Short Works of Herman Melville more books like this by Professor Herman Melville A complete collection of Melville's short works of fiction includes The Encantadas, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, Sailor, and Bartleby, the Scrivener, as well as seventeen other short stories. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.97! \| SVS
9	Pierre or the Ambiguities more books like this by Professor Herman Melville 'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jacko 'the' lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered stomach, disordered by a hasty supper on half-cooked ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Confidence-Man more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Poorly received when first published in 1857, "The Confidence Man" is now considered Herman Melville's 'most nearly perfect work', and one that occupies a central place in the American literary tradition of masquerade and trickery. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, this powerful and engaging novel, through the conversations of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Benito Cereno more books like this by Professor Herman Melville This annotated edition offers an authoritative text of Herman Melville's classic short novel, accompanied by a generous selection of documents designed to give students a sense of the rich historical and cultural context of 19th-century America. The documents are thematically organized into categories including: sources/pretexts; Melville on race ... see all copies from $2.97! new only from $6.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Bartleby the Scrivener more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Melville's brief, allegorical tragicomedy, originally published in two issues of Putnam's Monthly Magazine in 1853, is the tale of an obscure clerk in a law office on Wall Street. Bartleby's implacable passivity, expressed in his constant iteration of the phrase "I prefer not to," has a strange effect on those with whom he comes in contact. ... see all copies from $3.66! new only from $5.79! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	White Jacket or the World in a Man of War more books like this by Professor Herman Melville In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war United States , and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket , a success both as a story and as an expos 'e of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware. Melville's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.65! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	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. ... see all copies from $2.16! new only from $4.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Redburn, His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined. Mocked by the crew on board the Highlander for his weakness and bullied by the vicious and merciless ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Bartleby the Scrivener a Story of Wall-Street more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Melville's brief, allegorical tragicomedy, originally published in two issues of Putnam's Monthly Magazine in 1853, is the tale of an obscure clerk in a law office on Wall Street. Bartleby's implacable passivity, expressed in his constant iteration of the phrase "I prefer not to," has a strange effect on those with whom he comes in contact. ... see all copies from $7.63! new only from $7.63! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, "Typee" was immensely popular and regarded in Melville's lifetime as his best work. It established ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	White Jacket 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.77! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales more books like this by Professor Herman Melville, Robert Milder (Editor) 'Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, 'In this short history of the impressment and hanging of a handsome sailor-boy are to be discovered ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.30! \| SVS
20	The Portable Melville more books like this by Professor Herman Melville, Jay Leyda (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Following the commercial and critical success of "Typee", Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, "Omoo" chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville's personal experiences ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.68! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $50.00! \| SVS
23 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $3.01! new only from $14.17! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Bartleby more books like this by Professor Herman Melville This story inevitably awakens readers' compassion and curiosity, as they try to find out who is the silent clerk, this solitary character grows more and more fearful of the world each day and more and more drawn to his four walls. What is it, exactly, that makes Bartleby the clerk say, "I'd rather not," more frequently and without a word of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
25 view cover	Redburn His First Voyage more books like this by Professor Herman Melville REDBURN, which Melville claimed he wrote solely for money, is a coming-of-age novel based on his first voyage in 1839 as part of the crew of a cotton-merchant ship en route to Liverpool. Like so many of Melville's novels, REDBURN is about an inexperienced, and rather effete boy who is hardened and turned into a man by his adventures at sea. Its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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