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1	Billy Budd more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works.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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Billy Budd and Other Tales more books like this by Professor Herman Melville Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works.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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Night Inspector more books like this by Frederick Busch 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
4	Epistemology of the closet more books like this by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wilde, James and Proust, Sedgwick argues that the imperatives to specify straight and gay identities have become central to every important form of knowledge in the twentieth century. see all copies from $4.60! new only from $16.94! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Herman Melville: A Biography more books like this by Professor Hershel Parker 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 $3.37! new only from $33.88! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Herman Melville more books like this by Newton Arvin This compelling biography of Herman Melville, one of America's most enigmatic literary figures, recounts a life full of adventure, hardship, and moral conflict. The grandson of two wealthy Revolutionary War heroes, Melville spent the first years of his affluent childhood in New York City, until his father went suddenly bankrupt in 1830, moved the ... see all copies from $2.55! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Melville: His World and Work more books like this by Andrew Delbanco 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 $5.20! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Call me Ishmael more books like this by Charles Olson First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences--especially Shakespearean ones--on Herman Melville's writing of "Moby-Dick". Olson examines the influence of "King Lear" on Melville's work. see all copies from $11.50! new only from $30.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Herman Melville more books like this by Lewis Mumford 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! first editions \| SVS
10	Herman Melville more books like this by Elizabeth Hardwick 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 $1.99! \| first editions
11 view cover	Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America more books like this by Gillian Brown Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the ... see all copies from $7.45! new only from $19.98! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Billy Budd, Notes more books like this by Mary Ellen Snodgrass see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
13 view cover	Moby Dick more books like this by James L Roberts, PH.D. -- 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
14 view cover	Herman Melville: Moby-Dick: Essays Articles Reviews more books like this by Professor Nick Selby (Editor) This "Columbia Critical Guide" starts with extracts from Melville's own letters and essays and from early reviews of "Moby-Dick" that set the terms for later critical evaluations. Subsequent chapters deal with the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s and the novel's central place in the establishment, growth, and reassessment of American Studies in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism more books like this by Wai-Chee Dimock 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 $4.55! new only from $20.94! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Herman Melville more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) 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 $9.27! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Reader's Guide to Herman Melville more books like this by James Edwin Miller This guide contains a comprehensive study of Melville's fiction and poetry. James E. Miller, Jr. in addition to analyzing each of Melville's works, traces this author's principal themes and shows how his art and thought developed. A Reader's Guide to Herman Melville also includes a brief note on Melville's life, an evaluative bibliography, and an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.72! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville more books like this by Robert S Levine (Editor) Specially commissioned essays provide a comprehensive overview of writer Herman Melville's career. All of Melville's novels are discussed, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on an American author whose work continues to fascinate readers and ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $23.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville more books like this by Harry Levin see all copies from $2.99! new only from $15.01! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Melville: A Biography more books like this by Lau Robertson-Lorant The story of Herman Melville's turbulent life, told by scholar/poet Laurie Robertson-Lorant. She draws from more than 500 newly discovered Melville family letters to provide a fresh perspective on the women in Melville's life, his relationship with Hawthorne, his struggles with debt, his disappointment in the reception of his work, and the ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $35.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Subversive Genealogy more books like this by Michael Paul Rogin see all copies from $7.01! new only from $28.75! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing more books like this by Elizabeth Renker Herman Melville was an intense and tortured writer, plagued by writing anxiety, emotional problems, and painful physical ailments. He produced his extraordinary body of work only with great anguish, and he appears to have inflicted great anguish on those around him. According to Elizabeth Renker, we learn much about Melville's fiction if we see ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews, Criticism (And) an Annotated Bibliography more books like this by Professor 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick more books like this by Clark Davis Recipient of the 1993 Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature. The first complete and consecutive exploration of Melville's writings in the wake of Moby-Dick, from Pierre through his short stories and poetry to his final novella, Billy Budd. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	In Search of Moby Dick: The Quest for the White Whale more books like this by Tim Severin, Tim Serverin Tim Severin travels to the island of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia, where Herman Melville ended up in 1842. From his investigations Severin concludes that MOBY-DICK came largely out of that experience and, more specifically, out of the islanders' beliefs about whales. He includes a great deal of information about the Polynesians' methods of whale ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.82! \| first editions

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