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1	Billy Budd and Other Tales more books like this by Professor Herman Melville add to wishlist Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works.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 $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism more books like this by Professor Herman Melville, Dan McCall (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $11.07! new only from $14.22! \| SVS
3	Herman Melville: A Biography more books like this by Professor Hershel Parker add to wishlist This second and final volume of Hershel Parker's biography of Herman Melville begins with the publication of MOBY-DICK in 1851, and follows Melville--and the novel--through years of disappointing reviews and increasing obscurity. Unable to sustain a living by writing, Melville was forced to work at the Customs House in New York City, and never ... see all copies from $6.94! new only from $36.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Night Inspector more books like this by Frederick Busch add to wishlist William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, returns to New York City bent on reversing his fortunes. Busch's stunning novel is a gripping portrait of a nation trying to heal from the ravages of war and of one man's attempt to recapture a taste for life through the surging currents of his own emotions, ambitions, and shattered ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Billy Budd, Sailor more books like this by Professor Herman Melville add to wishlist Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works.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 $3.03! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Melville: His World and Work more books like this by Andrew Delbanco add to wishlist Delbanco traces Melville's growth from bawdy storyteller through the spiritual preoccupations building up to "Moby-Dick," and the profound disillusionment of later works as he charts a life that left little evidence in its wake. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Herman Melville: An Introduction more books like this by Wyn Kelley add to wishlist This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in "Billy Budd" - 'a writer whom few know'. Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of "Moby-Dick", this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels. This title offers a ... see all copies from $23.92! new only from $31.79! \| SVS
8	Moby-Dick more books like this by Stanley P Baldwin, M.A. add to wishlist More New and Revised Titles. The Best Just Got Better! Plus Glossary from Websters New World Dictionary Anthem Atlas Shrugged Beowulf Brave New World The Canterbury Tales The Catcher in the Rye The Contender The Crucible The Fountainhead Frankenstein The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Hamlet Heart of Darkness The Secret Sharer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.21! \| SVS
9	Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville more books like this by Harry Levin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.77! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville more books like this by Robert S Levine (Editor) add to wishlist The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $29.49! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism more books like this by Wai-Chee Dimock add to wishlist Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $6.29! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Herman Melville more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist In this study of Herman Melville's life and thought, the author primarily relied on Melville's own writings, including his letters, and some of his notebooks. This work is singularly complete in that part of Melville which most matters: his ideas, his feelings, his urges, his vision of life. Wherever possible, the author uses Melville's own ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $91.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Subversive Genealogy more books like this by Michael Paul Rogin add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
14 view cover	Herman Melville more books like this by Elizabeth Hardwick add to wishlist The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America more books like this by Gillian Brown add to wishlist Gillian Brown explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class, and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity. She offers a new reading of writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, ... see all copies from $9.65! new only from $19.98! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick more books like this by Sterling Stuckey add to wishlist Here is that rare work that in research and interpretation is original almost from beginning to end. For the first time we discover that slave music and dance are used by Melville in Moby-Dick in the creation of some of his most tragic and avant-garde art. Just as previously unknown African practices, found in travel accounts, reveal a powerful ... see all copies from $20.74! new only from $21.69!
17 view cover	Correspondence: Volume Fourteen, Scholarly Edition more books like this by Professor Herman Melville, Professor Hershel Parker (Editor), Harrison Hayford (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $48.98! new only from $48.98!
18 view cover	Herman Melville more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist Professor Bloom has written a lengthy introduction and presents essays by major critics from a variety of perspectives on the work of the author of "Moby Dick". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Moby Dick more books like this by James L Roberts, PH.D. add to wishlist -- Offers a traditional CliffNotes "TM" treatment of a literary novel, with updated and new content. -- Includes Life and Background of the Author, Introduction to the Novel, A Brief Synopsis, List of Characters, Critical Commentaries, Glossaries, Character Analyses, and Critical Essays. -- Enhanced by collaboration with Webster's New World "TM" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville more books like this by Kevin J Hayes add to wishlist Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man - Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer more books like this by Loren Goldner add to wishlist Herman Melville was a grand bourgeois, with aristocratic overtones, whose life path abruptly turned downward at 13 with the bankruptcy, madness, and death of his father in 1831. This new study reveals how Melville's literary works echo the idology of his day. see all copies from $6.38! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Melville's Moby-Dick: An American Nekyia more books like this by Edward F. Edinger add to wishlist Dr. Edinger approaches Moby-Dick as a psychological document, a symbolic record of an intense inner experience which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for their meaning to emerge fully. His exploration elucidates the psychological significance of the book, demonstrates the Jungian approach to symbolic material, and ... see all copies from $15.41! new only from $21.67!
23	Moby-Dick: Ishmael's Mighty Book more books like this by Kerry McSweeney add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
24 view cover	Herman Melville A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work more books like this by Carl Rollyson add to wishlist An encyclopedic guide to the novelist includes entries on Melville's works and characters, influential events and social issues, friends and family, and journeys. see all copies from $2.65! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Don't Call Me Ishmael more books like this by Michael Gerard Bauer add to wishlist Ninth-grader Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before his lame name makes him a target. But all that changes when James Scobie arrives. Now nothing will stop James and Ishmael in the toughest, weirdest, most embarrassingly awful . . . and the best year of their lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| SVS

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