Herman Melville
Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are ''Moby-Dick'' (1851); ''Typee'' (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and ''Billy Budd, Sailor'', a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. ''Moby-Dick'' eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler ''Acushnet'', but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. ''Typee'', his first book, and its sequel, ''Omoo'' (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. ''Mardi'' (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. ''Redburn'' (1849) and ''White-Jacket'' (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family.
Melville's growing literary ambition showed in ''Moby-Dick'' (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel ''Pierre: or, The Ambiguities'' (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, ''The Confidence-Man'' (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector.
From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. ''Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War'' (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic ''Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land'' was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella ''Billy Budd'' was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891. Provided by Wikipedia
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Billy Budd, Sailor by Melville, Herman
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Typee ""Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone"". by Melville, Herman
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Pierre or, The Ambiguities ""Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things"". by Melville, Herman
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Billy Budd ""Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges"". by Melville, Herman
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Moby-Dick. by Melville, Herman
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White Jacket "Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning". by Melville, Herman
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The Confidence Man ""It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation"". by Melville, Herman
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Moby Dick or, The Whale ""To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme"". by Melville, Herman
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The Apple-Tree Table & Other Sketches ""To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom"". by Melville, Herman
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I and My Chimney "I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge". by Melville, Herman
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Israel Potter ""Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth"". by Melville, Herman
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Mardi, and A Voyage Thither. Volume I (of II) ""It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open"". by Melville, Herman
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The Piazza Tales ""A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities"". by Melville, Herman
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Omoo ""A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things"". by Melville, Herman
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Redburn, His first Voyage ""Truth is in things and not in the mind"". by Melville, Herman
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Moby Dick. by Melville, Herman
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Mardi, and A Voyage Thither. Volume II (of II) ""Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow"". by Melville, Herman
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Clarel - Part IV (of IV) ""There is a touch of divinity even in brutes"". by Melville, Herman
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Clarel - Part I (of IV) ""Art is the objectification of feeling"". by Melville, Herman
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Clarel - Part II (of IV) ""To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom"". by Melville, Herman
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Clarel - Part III (of IV) ""There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too"". by Melville, Herman
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The confidence-man by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Moby Dick : Or, the Whale. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Bartleby, the Scrivener : a Story of Wall-Street. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Typee : a peep at Polynesian life by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Billy Budd
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Redburn : His First Voyage. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Omoo : a narrative of the south seas by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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The portable Melville by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Collected poems of Herman Melville by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Melville by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Selected poems of Herman Melville by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Omoo; a narrative of adventures in the South Seas by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Moby Dick; or, The whale by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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The apple-tree table : and other sketches by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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The confidence-man : his masquerade by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Moby Dick, or The Whale / Whale by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Clarel : a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man- of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale / Redburn, White-jacket, Moby-Dick by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an insid... by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
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