Mardi: and a voyage thither. By Herman Melville ( volume 1 )

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the mid-19th century American Renaissance. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), his work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He ...