Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. (Source.)
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Moby Dick
324 editions - first published in 1851 Read -
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (The Penguin English Library)
137 editions - first published in 1840 Read -
Billy Budd
89 editions - first published in 1 Borrow -
Omoo: a narrative of adventures in the South Seas
67 editions - first published in 1847 Read -
White Jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war
38 editions - first published in 1850 Read -
Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile
36 editions - first published in 1855 Read -
The Piazza Tales
30 editions - first published in 1856 Read -
Redburn
29 editions - first published in 1849 Read -
Battle-pieces and aspects of the war
23 editions - first published in 1866 Read -
White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war
23 editions - first published in 1850 Read -
Pierre or The Ambiguities
20 editions - first published in 1852 Read -
Benito Cereno
19 editions - first published in 1926 Borrow -
Works
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Mardi and a voyage thither
16 editions - first published in 1849 Read -
Herman Melville
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Selected poems of Herman Melville
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Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
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Billy Budd, sailor and other stories
9 editions - first published in 1967 Borrow -
The portable Melville
9 editions - first published in 1952 Borrow -
John Marr And Other Poems
8 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
Melville: Six Short Novels
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The confidence-man: his masquerade
8 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow -
Selected tales and poems: edited with an introd. by Richard Chase.
8 editions - first published in 1950 Borrow -
The apple-tree table and other sketches: With an introductory note by Henry Chapin.
7 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
The works of Herman Melville
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Selected poems
7 editions - first published in 1944 Borrow -
Great short works of Herman Melville
7 editions - first published in 1966 Borrow -
Billy Budd and Other Tales: With an afterword by Willard Thorp.
6 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow -
Bartleby El Escribiente
5 editions - first published in 1991 -
Journal up the straits, October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857
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Journal of a visit to London and the Continent, 1849-1850
4 editions - first published in 1948 -
Battle-pieces and aspects of war: [poems]
4 editions - first published in 1866 Read -
Battle-pieces
4 editions - first published in 1963 -
Collected poems of Herman Melville
4 editions - first published in 1947 -
The apple-tree table: and other sketches.
4 editions - first published in 1969 -
White Jacket Or The World On A Man-of-war
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Typee and Billy Budd
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Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile: Edited with an introd. by Raymond M. Weaver.
4 editions - first published in 1855 Read -
The Encantadas
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Taipi
3 editions - first published in 1951 -
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems
3 editions - first published in 1924 -
Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Volume I
3 editions - first published in 2007 -
On the Slain Collegians: selections from the poems of Herman Melville.
3 editions - first published in 1971 -
Collected poems: Edited by Howard P. Vincent.
3 editions - first published in 1947 -
Billy Budd and Typee
3 editions - first published in 1962 -
Shorter novels: With an introd. by Raymond Weaver.
3 editions - first published in 1942 -
Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Moby-Dick, White-jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn.
3 editions - first published in 1928 -
Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Volume II
3 editions - first published in 2007 -
Billy Budd, sailor and selected tales
3 editions - first published in 1997 Borrow -
Billy Budd, with reader's guide
3 editions - first published in 1971 Borrow -
Melville's marginalia
3 editions - first published in 1965 -
Journals: Volume Fifteen (Melville)
3 editions - first published in 1989 -
John Marr and other sailors, with some sea-pieces
3 editions - first published in 1888 -
Moby Dick, 1 Cassette
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
Journal of a visit to Europe and the Levant: October 11, 1856-May 6, 1857
2 editions - first published in 1955 -
Five Tales
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Omoo (Adventures in the South Seas)
2 editions - first published in 2007 -
Herman Melville's Billy Budd
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Collected Works of Herman Melville
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Bartleby, le scribe
2 editions - first published in 1996 -
Melville par lui-même: [Par] Jean Jacques Mayoux.
2 editions - first published in 1958 -
Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860
2 editions - first published in 1987 -
White Jacket Or Life In A Man-O-War
2 editions - first published in 1983 -
Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative) Reading text and genetic text
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
Great short works
2 editions - first published in 1966 -
Shorter novels of Hermann Melville
2 editions - first published in 1928 -
At the hostelry ; and, Naples in the time of Bomba
2 editions - first published in 1989 -
Pierre, or: The Ambiguities
2 editions - first published in 1999 -
Moby Dick. Kapitän Ahab jagt den weißen Wal
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Hakugei
2 editions - first published in 1952 -
I And My Chimney
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Oeuvres: Taipi, Omou, Mardi (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)
2 editions - first published in 1813 Read -
Hakugei
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Hakugei
2 editions - first published in 1952 -
La Vareuse blanche: (White jacket).
2 editions - first published in 1967 -
Billy Budd and Beníto Cereno
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Bartleby
2 editions - first published in 1993 -
Moby Dick E
2 editions - first published in 1979 -
Moby Dick. ( Ab 12 J.)
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
Cetology: a systematized exhibition of the whale in his broad genera: natural historyexcerpts from "Moby Dick"
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
Omoo; a narrative of adventures in the South Seas
2 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
Correspondence
2 editions - first published in 1993 Borrow -
The complete shorter fiction
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
Moby Dick, o, La ballena
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Mūbī Dīk
1 edition - first published in 1998 -
Melville Benito Cereno
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Herman Melville's Billy Budd, foretopman
1 edition - first published in 1900 -
Wu bi di you ming "Bai jing"
1 edition - first published in 1970 -
O vigarista: seus truques
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
Weissjacke, oder, Die Welt auf einem Kriegsschiff
1 edition - first published in 1954 -
Nrep srong hkai hso =: Billy Budd
1 edition - first published in 1965 -
Moby Dick, of De witte walvisch
1 edition - first published in 1929 -
BILLY BUDD & BENITO CERENO
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Bai jing ji
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Derniers poèmes
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Maskeraden oder Vertrauen gegen Vertrauen
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Selected Tales and Poems of Herman Melvill
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Complete works of Herman Melville
1 edition - first published in 1947 -
The Writings of Herman Melville Volume Six: Moby-Dick or The Whale
1 edition - first published in 1988
Herman Melville
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Alternative names
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Herman; Geismar, Maxwell (intro.) Melville
- Intro. Nat Philibrick Herman Melville
- Herman Melville Janet Nicola Tufts
- Herman Melvillle
- Herman Melvile
- Hermann Melville
- MELVILLE H.
- Herman; Laxe Freire, Manuel Anxo (Trad.) Melville
- Melville, Herman Schriftsteller, USA
- Herman Hillway, Tyrus Melville
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