âIn The Confidence-Man ,â writes John Bryant in his Introduction, âMelville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the...
Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true,...
Herman Melvilleâs masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. Nominated as one of Americaâs best-loved novels by PBSâs The Great American Read
From short masterpieces like âBartleby the Scrivenerâ and âBilly Buddâ to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem âClarel,â...
Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd-presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.
First published in 1851, Herman Melvilleâs masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwickâs words, âthe greatest novel in American literature.â The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal...
Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.
The entries collected in The Selected Poems of Herman Melville were chosen with literary consideration foremost, but poems of lesser regard also appear in the interest of exploring Melville's artistic development and their correlation with his novels....
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of...
If Melville had never written Moby Dick , his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God."...
This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of...
First published in 1851, Herman Melvilleâs masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwickâs words, âthe greatest novel in American literature.â The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal...