Herman Melville

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Herman Melville - Moby Dick, or the Whale

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the...

Stewart Wills 24 hours 38 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Herman Melville - Pierre, or The Ambiguities

The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.

Naduplants and 1 more 17 hours 10 minutes

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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Herman Melville - White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War

This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities of service in the US Navy at that time, but beyond this the narrator has...

James K. White 16 hours 19 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Herman Melville - Mardi Vol. 2

Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham? Mardi is a poetically existential...

James K. White 12 hours 49 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Herman Melville - Redburn: His First Voyage

Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign travel and adventure. In Redburn, the...

James K. White 12 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Typee

Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America...

Michael Scherer 11 hours 42 minutes

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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee , and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which...

TriciaG 11 hours 31 minutes

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General Fiction

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Herman Melville - Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The...

mb 10 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Mardi Vol. 1

«Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and...

Ecological Humanist and 1 more 10 hours 46 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Benito Cereno

On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed...

Nullifidian and 5 more 3 hours 53 minutes

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General Fiction

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Herman Melville - Encantadas or Enchanted Isles

The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical «Sketches» on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It...

James K. White 2 hours 33 minutes

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Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Single author

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Herman Melville - Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems are inspired by second- and third-hand accounts from print news sources...

Clark University 2 hours 24 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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