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Four Great American Classics

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

Patrick McGrath

Moby Dick or The White Whale

Herman Melville

Geraldine McCaughrean

Rosamund Fowler

Typee

Herman Melville

William Clark Russell

Moby-dick, or the Whale

Herman Melville

Susan Brassfield Cogan

Benito Cereno

Herman Melville

Pierre or the Ambiguities

Herman Melville

The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches

Herman Melville

Henry Chapin

Billy Budd and Other Stories

Herman Melville

Bartleby, The Scrivener

Herman Melville

Marvel Illustrated

James Fenimore Cooper

Homer

Herman Melville

Roy Thomas

Billy Budd and Other Tales

Herman Melville

The Encantadas

Herman Melville

Moby Dick - The Original Classic Edition

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville

Billy Budd and the Encatadas

Biography

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed in his lifetime. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

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