The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of Contents)

The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of Contents)

by Herman Melville
The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of Contents)

The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of Contents)

by Herman Melville

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Overview

This collection contains 10 classic novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry by Herman Melville! All pieces are equipped with an active Table of Contents for smooth navigation, and the collection has been formatted for optimal viewing on the Nook! This classic collection includes:

Novels:
TYPEE
OMOO: ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER
REDBURN. HIS FIRST VOYAGE
WHITE-JACKET
MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE
PIERRE:
ISRAEL POTTER
THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE.
BILLY BUDD

Short Stories:
THE PIAZZA TALES, containing:
• THE PIAZZA
• BARTLEBY
• BENITO CERENO
• THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN
• THE ENCANTADAS
• THE BELL-TOWER

COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO !
POOR MAN’S PUDDING, RICH MAN’S CRUMBS
THE HAPPY FAILURE
THE FIDDLER
THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS
THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS
JIMMY ROSE
THE ‘GEES
I AND MY CHIMNEY
THE APPLE-TREE TABLE

Poetry Collections:
BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR.
CLAREL
JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS
TIMOLEON

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012831675
Publisher: A & L eBooks
Publication date: 07/10/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 27 MB
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About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15
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