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Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor

Billy Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville left unfinished at Melville's death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's works. Budd is a «handsome sailor» who strikes and inadvertently kills his false accuser, Master-at-arms John Claggart. The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, recognizes the innocence of...

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Great Short Works of Herman Melvill...

Herman Melville

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Early American writer Herman Melville is best known for his great American novel «Moby Dick.» However, Melville was also a prolific and honest short story writer. His stories play with irony, twisting the fates of his protagonists and making sure that the reader is left with a deep sense of wonder and enlightenment. Many of his works are set from an «outsider's» perspective of immigrants in early America, which is interesting considering that Melville was an American. Yet in the...

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Billy Budd and Other Stories

Herman Melville

Billy Budd and Other Stories

Known best for his avant-garde and modernistic style, Herman Melville's stories come together in the compilation «Billy Budd and Other Stories.» In «Billy Budd, Foretopman,» Melville returns to the sea life and describes the tale of a well-liked sailor who is wrongly convicted of trying to enact mutiny against the ship's master at arms. Billy Budd accidentally kills his superior during a fight, and he is sentenced to death and hung in front of the whole crew. It is a story about good...

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

Herman Melville

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

"Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life" was Herman Melville's first novel. Originally published in 1846, «Typee» was partially based on Melville's own experiences as a beachcomber in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. A romanticized travelogue of the Pacific island paradise Nuku Hiva, «Typee» is the story of Tommo, a Yankee sailor and his four month stay on the island. One of Melville's most popular works during his lifetime, «Typee» gives the reader a captivating look into the...

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in...

Herman Melville

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Based on Melville's own experiences in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, «Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas» is the story of an unnamed narrator who ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti. Following a mutiny, most of the crew, along with the narrator, are imprisoned on the island of Tahiti. The book follows the narrator as he makes his way around the island remarking on the way of life and customs of the natives as he goes. «Omoo: A Narrative of...

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The Encantadas and Other Stories

Herman Melville

The Encantadas and Other Stories

Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819–91) found critical and popular success with his first novels, which he based on his adventures in the South Seas. His reputation was diminished by his preoccupation with metaphysical themes and allegorical techniques in later works; and by the time of his death, his books were long forgotten. Generations later, Melville's readers recognized his work as keenly satirical and rich...

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Benito Cereno, Bartleby: The Scrive...

Herman Melville

Benito Cereno, Bartleby: The Scrivener, and The Encantadas

In this collection readers will find three of Herman Melville's most popular shorter works, «Benito Cereno», «Bartleby: The Scrivener», and «The Encantadas». Considered to be one of Melville's best short stories, «Benito Cereno» is a tale of the revolt aboard a Spanish ship. «Bartleby: The Scrivener» is a moral allegory set on Wall Street in New York. And «The Encantadas» are a collection of sketches based on Melville's experiences in the Galapagos Islands.

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Moby Dick (Classic Drama)

Herman Melville

Moby Dick (Classic Drama)

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Bell-Tower, The The

Herman Melville

Bell-Tower, The The

Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bell-Tower” is a dark literary work that explores, though never fully reveals, its central mystery. An eccentric artist and architect dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, he happily begins construction. When city residents begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the project, their...

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Typee

Herman Melville

Typee

Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three week stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other Pacific exploration books of the...

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Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Benito Cereno

A fictionalized account about the revolt on a 19th-century Spanish slavery ship, Benito Cereno was first published in three installments in 1855. Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr. called the story “an oblique comment on those prevailing attitudes toward blacks and slavery in the United States that would ultimately precipitate civil war between North and South.” The famous question of what had cast such a shadow upon Cereno was used by American author Ralph Ellison as an epitaph to his 1952...

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Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Sto...

Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

“Billy Budd” is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first published in Raymond Weaver’s 1924 edition of “The Collected Works of Melville.” The emergence of that collection as well as Weaver’s 1921 biography, “Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic”, sparked a revival of interest in the forgotten writer. Despite the complex and incomplete nature of the manuscript excitement arose around this “new” Melville...

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Herman Melville

Pierre

Herman Melville

Pierre

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Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

Herman Melville

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither

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The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sket...

Herman Melville

The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

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Moby Dick

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Moby Dick

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Przyg...

Herman Melville

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Przygody Tomka Sawyera

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Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick

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The Man & The Sea - 10 Maritime Nov...

Herman Melville

The Man & The Sea - 10 Maritime Novels in One Edition

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is a memoir of a year spent on a U.S. man-of-war, the 54-gun frigate USS «Neversink» in a voyage from Chile to Norfolk. Redburn: His First Voyage recounts the adventures of a refined young man among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Mardi, and a Voyage Thither details the traveling of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale – Sailor Ishmael tells the story...

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HERMAN MELVILLE – Premium Collectio...

Herman Melville

HERMAN MELVILLE – Premium Collection: 24 Novels & Novellas; With 140+ Poems & Essays

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Timoleon

Herman Melville

Timoleon

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Omoo

Herman Melville

Omoo

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Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edit...

Herman Melville

Moby Dick (Complete Unabridged Edition)

"Moby-Dick" is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now...

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