Herman Melville

Four Great American Classics

by Mark Twain, Stephen Crane & Herman Melville

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world...

The Confidence-Man

by Herman Melville & John Bryant

“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader...

Redburn

by Herman Melville & Elizabeth Hardwick

Drawn from Melville’s own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish...

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that...

Daniel Orme

by Herman Melville

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

The Piazza

by Herman Melville

Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost...

I and My Chimney

by Herman Melville

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids

by Herman Melville

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

The Fiddler

by Herman Melville

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man

by Herman Melville

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

The Happy Failure

by Herman Melville

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence.

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The Two Temples

by Herman Melville

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence.

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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Or, The Crowing of the Noble Cock Beneventano

by Herman Melville

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after his...

The Happy Failure

by Herman Melville

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence.

Here...