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Product Description: Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his most open, with its discussion of homosexualty...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781612195858 | Melville Pub House, December 6, 2016, cover price $12.00 | also contains Billy Budd, Sailor | About this edition: Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.

9781519239518, titled "Billy Budd: Sailor" | Createspace Independent Pub, November 11, 2015, cover price $6.95 | also contains Billy Budd, Sailor | About this edition: Classic Short StoriesSeafaring TalesBilly BuddSailorHerman MelvilleBilly Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924.

9781515133766 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 18, 2015, cover price $6.95 | also contains Billy Budd, Sailor | About this edition: Billy Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924.

9781505289152 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 3, 2014, cover price $7.00 | also contains Billy Budd, Sailor | About this edition: Written during the last years of Melville's life, a quarter of a century after his main work, by which his reputation was established, had been completed; and it was not published until 1924, when it was included in the limited Standard Edition.

9781409941569 | Dodo Pr, October 30, 2008, cover price $12.99

Moby Dick 2017 Book-in-a-year Calendar

By Herman Melville

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9780789331489 | Pag edition (Universe Pub, September 6, 2016), cover price $14.99

Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories: The Lightning-rod Man, the Bell-tower

Product Description: Melville's Bartleby is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is "I would prefer not to." It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza Tales, Melville's idiosyncratic collection: The Lightning-Rod Man, and The Bell-Tower...read more

By Herman Melville and William Roberts (narrator)

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9781522633136 | Mp3 una edition (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, June 7, 2016), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Melville's Bartleby is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is "I would prefer not to.

The Confidence-man: His Masquerade, Library Edition

Product Description: In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781504721844 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 7, 2016), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.

Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities; Library Edition

Product Description: Pierre Glendinning is the nineteen-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother, Pierre encounters the dark and mysterious Isabel Banford, who claims to be his half-sister, the illegitimate and orphaned child of his father and a European refugee...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781504713573 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 31, 2016), cover price $109.00 | About this edition: Pierre Glendinning is the nineteen-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York.

Billy Budd, Bartleby the Scrivener, and Other Stories

Product Description: A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction...read more

By Peter Coviello (introduced by) and Herman Melville

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9780143107606 | Penguin Classics, April 26, 2016, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction.

White-Jacket: The World in a Man-of-War

Product Description: White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS "Neversink" (actually the USS United States)...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781532743566 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 19, 2016), cover price $10.40 | About this edition: White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850.

9781495974212 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 17, 2014, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: âJack Chase, the educated, manly friend in White Jacket, was an actual shipmate never to be forgotten.

Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 1849

Product Description: Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither (1849)...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530978465 | Combined edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 10, 2016), cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers.

White-jacket: Or, the World in a Man-of-war 1850

Product Description: "White Jacket" written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o'-war vessel...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530981373 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 10, 2016, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: "White Jacket" written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is considered to be a semi-biographical book, written from Melville's own personal experiences while returning home to the Atlantic Coast from the South Seas with the American Navy on a man-o'-war vessel.

Redburn - His First Voyage 1849: Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service

Product Description: Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530980963 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 10, 2016, cover price $9.55 | About this edition: Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea.

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile 1855

Product Description: Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure. After fighting in the revolution, he went on to be a part of the newly-established United States Navy, ended up serving as a secret courier for Benjamin Franklin Bits of this are fiction, and may be even more spectacular...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530976850 | Original edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 10, 2016), cover price $10.39 | About this edition: Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure.

9781530976997 | Original edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 9, 2016), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure.

9781530976317 | Original edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 9, 2016), cover price $9.38 | About this edition: Herman Melville's "Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure.

The Piazza Tales

Product Description: The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in 1853-1855...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530932283 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 9, 2016), cover price $6.98 | About this edition: The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June.

The Apple-tree Table

Product Description: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781505687651 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period.

The Apple-Tree Table

Product Description: When I first saw the table, dingy and dusty, in the furthest corner of the old hopper-shaped garret, and set out with broken, be-crusted old purple vials and flasks, and a ghostly, dismantled old quarto, it seemed just such a necromantic little old table as might have belonged to Friar Bacon...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530936090 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 8, 2016), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: When I first saw the table, dingy and dusty, in the furthest corner of the old hopper-shaped garret, and set out with broken, be-crusted old purple vials and flasks, and a ghostly, dismantled old quarto, it seemed just such a necromantic little old table as might have belonged to Friar Bacon.

Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!

Product Description: "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Nobel Cock Beneventano" is an 1853 short story by the American writer Herman Melville. Like his later story, "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" is one of Melville's experiments in utilizing sexually explicit metaphors, in an effort to challenge what Melville saw as a culture of sexual repression and the subjugation of women in contemporary Americ...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530935369 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 8, 2016), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!

The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

Product Description: "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" is a short story written by American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891). It first appeared in the April 1855 edition of Harper's Magazine.[1] A combination of two sketches, one set in the center of London's legal industry and the other in a New England paper factory, this story can be read as an early comment on globalization...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530935871 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 8, 2016), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" is a short story written by American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891).

9781505687545 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" is a short story written by American writer Herman Melville (1819-1891).

Cock-a-doodle-doo!

Product Description: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 â September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period. The bulk of his writings was published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he is also legendary for having been forgotten during the last thirty years of his life...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781505416633 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 6, 2014, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 â September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period.

The Confidence-man

Product Description: In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War. Evoking Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530875481 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, April 5, 2016), cover price $7.83 | also contains Confidence Man | About this edition: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857.

9781517242404, titled "The Confidence Man" | Createspace Independent Pub, September 8, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: At sunrise on a first of April, there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St.

9781505328394 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 13, 2015, cover price $16.99 | also contains Confidence Man

9781477689417 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 22, 2012, cover price $15.95 | also contains Confidence Man | About this edition: 'The Confidence-Man' was Herman Melville's last major completed work.

9781486149391 | Lightning Source Inc, June 20, 2012, cover price $9.94 | also contains Confidence Man

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9781504721851 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 7, 2016), cover price $29.95 | also contains Confidence Man | About this edition: In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War.

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas 1847

Product Description: Melville’s continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville’s personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530930661 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 7, 2016, cover price $9.75 | About this edition: Melville’s continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade 1857

Product Description: Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530927500 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 7, 2016, cover price $7.90 | About this edition: Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence man?

I and My Chimney

Product Description: The classic Herman Melville story which begins,"I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day."

By Herman Melville

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9781518817298 | Annotated edition (Createspace Independent Pub, October 29, 2015), cover price $5.99 | also contains I And My Chimney

9781516802982 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 7, 2015, cover price $6.99 | also contains I And My Chimney

9781512347890 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 23, 2015, cover price $6.99 | also contains I And My Chimney | About this edition: I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country.

9781506056678 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 6, 2015, cover price $12.95 | also contains I And My Chimney | About this edition: I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country.

9781505687620 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 22, 2014, cover price $9.99 | also contains I And My Chimney | About this edition: Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 â September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, writer of short stories, and poet from the American Renaissance period.

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The Water of the Wondrous Isles

Product Description: When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530921669 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 6, 2016, cover price $7.80 | About this edition: When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds.

The Piazza Tales 1856

Product Description: Herman Melville[a] (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851)...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530898398 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 5, 2016, cover price $7.75 | About this edition: Herman Melville[a] (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851).

Mardi

By Herman Melville

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9781530455300 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 1, 2016, cover price $20.99

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile

Product Description: Herman Melville[a] (August 1, 1819 â September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851)...read more

By Herman Melville

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9781530825837 | Original edition (Createspace Independent Pub, March 31, 2016), cover price $10.55 | About this edition: Herman Melville[a] (August 1, 1819 â September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851).

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