Selected Writings
1924
First Published
3.27
Average Rating
907
Number of Pages
Bartleby—Encantadas or enchanted isles—Isles at large—Two side to a tortoise—Rock Rodondo—Pisgah view from the rock—Frigate, and ship flyaway—Barrington isle and the buccaneers—Charles' isle and the dog-king—Norfolk isle and the Chola widow—Hood's isle and the Hermit Oberlus—Runaways, castaways, solitaries, grave-stones, etc—Crowing of the Nobel Cock Beneventano—Two temples—Temple first—Temple second - Poor man's pudding- Rich man's crumbs—Paradise of bachelors—Tartarus of maids—Lightning-rod man—Happy failure: a story of the river Hudson—Fiddler—Jimmy Rose—Benito Cereno—Bell-tower—I and my chimney—Apple-tree table or original spiritual manifestations—Piazza—Typee—Story of Toby—Billy Budd, Foretopman.
Avg Rating
3.27
Number of Ratings
66
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
21%
3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Herman Melville
Author · 76 books
There is more than one author with this name Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick—largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public—was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
