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In Herman Melville’s tales of the sea, powerful dramas that explore the human condition unfold against exotic backdrops rich with local color and authentic historical detail. Melville’s source materials were his own adventures as a sailor, and the sights he witnessed firsthand on his voyages to the South Seas. He universalized these personal experiences, mixing them with lore and legendry and lacing his everyday accounts of the sailing life with provocative metaphysical and philosophical insights.

This omnibus collects all of Melville’s seafaring novels, including Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby-Dick, a landmark of American ...

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In Herman Melville’s tales of the sea, powerful dramas that explore the human condition unfold against exotic backdrops rich with local color and authentic historical detail. Melville’s source materials were his own adventures as a sailor, and the sights he witnessed firsthand on his voyages to the South Seas. He universalized these personal experiences, mixing them with lore and legendry and lacing his everyday accounts of the sailing life with provocative metaphysical and philosophical insights.

This omnibus collects all of Melville’s seafaring novels, including Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby-Dick, a landmark of American literature that D.H. Lawrence praised as “a surpassingly beautiful book.” In addition, it includes the short novel Billy Budd, Sailor first published thirty-three years after Melville’s death.

Herman Melville: Seven Novels is part of Barnes & Noble’s Library of Essential Writers. Each title in the series presents the finest works—complete and unabridged—from one of the greatest writers in literature in magnificent, elegantly designed hardback editions. Every volume also includes an original introduction that provides the reader with enlightening information on the writer’s life and works.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780760790212
  • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
  • Publication date: 10/18/2008
  • Edition description: Complete and Unabridged
  • Pages: 1442
  • Series: Library of Essential Writers Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 10.00 (h) x 2.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Herman Melville
Herman Melville's legend is as mammoth and elusive as the whale that established it. The author's Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale stands as one of literature's greatest epics, a story of mythological proportions that was grounded in real life and a new way of storytelling. Melville's work, underappreciated in its time, remains as much subject to debate and interpretation as it was when he first caught the public eye with his South Seas adventure, Typee, in 1846.

Biography

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).

    1. Date of Birth:
      August 1, 1819
    2. Place of Birth:
      New York, New York
    1. Date of Death:
      September 28, 1891
    2. Place of Death:
      New York, New York
    1. Education:
      Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2009

    Questionable edition

    I was very intrigued by the price and abundance of Melville offered in this volume. However, upon reading the introduction I noticed several typos. I also noticed a sentence concerning Melville's relation to the public that made no sense - until I realized what was printed as "did catch up with him" was most obviously supposed to have been "did not catch up with him".

    Needless to say, the numerous errors in the first 3 pages of this book had me concerned about the quality of the texts presented.

    Also, the type is small. VERY SMALL.

    Worth the money though? Yes, for it is seven novels. Beware of the small type though.

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 7, 2010

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    Melville is AMAZING

    Okay. Many people think of Melville as the author of Moby-Dick, but he is also a very gifted poet. His poetry is very powerful in its messages, although difficult to understand and comprehend at times. This collection, while not complete, has a lot of Melville's poems in it. By far my favorite one is a short four-line poem entitled "Clover." It is so sweet, so simple, so descriptive. Herman Melville is a great underrated poet who should rank among the greats like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Whitman.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2009

    Great book, but unreadable type

    I thought use of this size type was restricted to the backs of credit card statements. I had high hopes for this book, but ended up returning it. Reading it was simply too difficult. The type is microscopic.

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