Author:Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (1819–1891)

See biography, media, quotes. An American novelist, essayist, and poet The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Novels 1.2 Short Stories 1.3 Poetry 2 Works about Melville

[edit] Works

[edit] Novels

• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, (1846)
• Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, (1847)
• Mardi: And a Voyage Thither, (1849)
• Redburn: His First Voyage, (1849)
• White-Jacket: or, the World in a Man-of-War, (1850)
• Moby-Dick, (1851)
• Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, (1855)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, (1857)
• Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative, (1924)

[edit] Short Stories

• Bartleby the Scrivener, (Collected in The Piazza Tales, 1856)
• The Lightning Rod Man, (Collected in The Piazza Tales, 1856)
• I and My Chimney, (Uncollected; Published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine, March 1856)
• Hawthorne and His Mosses, (Uncollected; Published in New York Literary World, August 24 1850)

[edit] Poetry

• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, (1866)
• Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, (1876)

[edit] Works about Melville

• Herman Melville article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
• “Melville, Herman,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.