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Classic American Fiction: 10 books by Melville, in a single file, improved 8/16/2010 by Herman Melville, 2008-09-05
Correspondence: Volume Fourteen, Scholarly Edition (Melville) by Herman Melville, 1993-07-06
Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1, 1819-1851) by Hershel Parker, 2005-08-15
Bartleby and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, 1990-07-01
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine by Robert Milder, 2009-01-14
Typee: a peep at Polynesian life, during a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas; by Herman Melville, 2010-09-08
The Passages of H. M.: A Novel of Herman Melville by Jay Parini, 2010-10-26
Billy Budd (mobi) by Herman Melville, 2008-04-30
Herman Melville by Newton Arvin, 2002-02-09
Pierre Or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville, 2010-05-23
The Herman Melville Collection (Halcyon Classics) by Herman Melville, 2009-08-11
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by Herman Melville, 2008-08-20
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by Herman Melville, 2002-07-09
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1993

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Alles Zu Melville
zurück herman melville 1.8.1819 New York 28.9.1891 New York a whaleship was my Yale-College and my Harvard Moby-Dick.
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"The Lightning-rod Man"
From The Life and Works of herman melville.
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Extractions: The Lightning-Rod Man What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearthstone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points, on my low shingled roof. I suppose, though, that the mountains hereabouts break and churn up the thunder, so that it is far more glorious here than on the plain. Hark! some one at the door. Who is this that chooses a time of thunder for making calls? And why don't he, man-fashion, use the knocker, instead of making that doleful undertaker's clatter with his fist against the hollow panel? But let him in. Ah, here he comes. "Good day, sir:" an entire stranger. "Pray be seated." What is that strange-looking walking-stick he carries: "A fine thunder-storm, sir." "Fine? Awful!" "You are wet. Stand here on the hearth before the fire." "Not for worlds." The stranger still stood in the exact middle of the cottage, where he had first planted himself. His singularity impelled a closer scrutiny. A lean, gloomy figure. Hair dark and lank, mattedly streaked over his brow. His sunken pitfalls of eyes were ringed by indigo halos, and played with an innocuous sort of lightning: the gleam without the bolt. The whole man was dripping. He stood in a puddle on the bare oak floor: his strange-walking stick vertically resting at his side. It was a polished copper rod, four feet long, lengthwise attached to a neat wooden staff, by insertion into two balls of greenish glass, ringed with copper bands. The metal rod terminated at the top tripodwise, in three keen tines, brightly gilt. He held the thing by the wooden part alone.
Melville, Herman. Typee. Taipi
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Extractions: "The invaders, on their march back to the sea, consoled themselves for their repulse by setting fire to every house and temple on their route; and a long line of smoking ruins defaced the once-smiling bosom of the valley, and proclaimed to its pagan inhabitants the spirit that reigned in the breasts of Christian soldiers" "... but Civilisation, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve" (Kap.17). Im Gegensatz zu seiner "real romance" "To read pathetic accounts of missionary hardships, and glowing descriptions of conversions, and baptisms taking place beneath palm-trees, is one thing; and to go to the Sandwich Islands and see the missionaries dwelling in picturesque and prettily-furnishes coral-rock villas, whilst the miserable natives are committing all sorts of immoralities around them, is quite another" (Kap.26).
The Piazza
From The Life and Works of herman melville.
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Extractions: Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele " When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farmhouse, which had no piazza a deficiency the more regretted because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of indoors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sunburnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and ax, fighting the troglodytes of those subterranean parts sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long landslide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppybed. Of that knit wood but one survivor stands an elm, lonely through steadfastness. Whoever built the house, he builded better than he knew, or else Orion in the zenith flashed down his Damocles' sword to him some starry night and said, "Build there." For how, otherwise, could it have entered the builder's mind, that, upon the clearing being made, such a purple prospect would be his? nothing less than Greylock, with all his hills about him, like Charlemagne among his peers.
Omoo
From The Life and Works of herman melville.
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Extractions: On approaching, she turned out to be a small, slatternly looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and every thing denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwarks were the sailors, wild, haggard-looking fellows in Scotch caps and faded blue frocks; some of them with cheeks of a mottled bronze, to which sickness soon changes the rich berry-brown of a seaman's complexion in the tropics. opening paragraphs Return to the top of this page Return to Melville Home Page Nothing can exceed the interest which Mr. Melville throws into his narrative; an interest which arises mainly from two causes, the clearness and simplicity of his style, and the utter absence of all approach to prolixity. He dwells upon no subject long enough to exhaust it; and yet his rapidity is never at the expense of sufficient fulness to place every subject distinctly before the reader. When there is occasion, too, he is as sly, humorous, and pungent as need be.
Biografia De Melville, Herman
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Mardi
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Extractions: A page from The Life and Works of Herman Melville Mardi: and a Voyage Thither: Disappointed by the sales of Omoo Mardi . Melville's British agent then offered the book to Richard Bentley, who paid Melville 200 guineas for the right to publish the new work. Mardi was originally intended as a fictional South Seas adventure story, an idea Melville claimed was inspired by the many attacks upon the veracity of Typee and Omoo . As the story progressed, however, he began to slide increasingly into satire and metaphysical speculation, eventually displacing his customary first-person narrator in favor of three external characters representing philosophical, narrative, and poetic voices, with a fourth to mediate between them. The resulting book revealed the first blossoming of the intellectual growth and spiritual searching that would shape Melville's later works, but it sold poorly and most readers were annoyed by its confused construction and continual "rhapsodising". Return to the top of this page Return to Melville Home Page We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow; and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound. Out spreads the canvas alow, aloft boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun' sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine.
Redburn
From The Life and Works of herman melville.
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Extractions: Return to Melville Home Page The author, from his slap-dash kind of writing, seems to have taken up with the notion that anything will do for the public. We are afraid he has been spoiled by partial success. In this work, as in Mardi , his talent seems running to seed from want of careful pruning, and, unless he pays more attention to his composition in future, we think it very unlikely that the announcement of a new work from his pen will excite the slightest desire to peruse it. London Britannia, October 27 1849
White-Jacket
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Extractions: A page from The Life and Works of Herman Melville White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War: White-Jacket , like the preceding Redburn , was written in a mere two months in a desperate attempt to bring some badly needed cash to the Melville household. Though Melville was unhappy with these two "cakes and ale" adventures, considering them to be superficial potboilers, they were among his more popular novels and, in fact, sold better than any of his subsequent productions. Return to the top of this page When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru her last harbor in the Pacific I found myself without a grego , or sailor's surtout; and as, toward the end of a three years' cruise, no pea-jackets could be had from the purser's steward; and being bound for Cape Horn, some sort of a substitute was indispensable; I employed myself, for several days, in manufacturing an outlandish garment of my own devising, to shelter me from the boisterous weather we were so soon to encounter. opening paragraphs Return to the top of this page Return to Melville Home Page The sketches of which this work is composed are worked up with the skill and power of a practised pen; but, nevertheless, the want of continuity of interest is painfully felt as the reader proceeds from one chapter to another. Mr. Melville, while exhibiting all the phases of sea life during a long voyage, exhibits, too, something of its monotony.... Unless he changes his style, his popularity, at least with those who read for amusement, will not survive the issue of another
Herman Melville (1819-1891) American Writer.
(18191891) American writer. A novelist and short story writer, herman melville is a major literary figure. Literature Classic, melville, herman Guide picks.
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Pierre
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Extractions: A page from The Life and Works of Herman Melville Pierre; or, The Ambiguities: Melville had originally discussed the publication of Pierre with Richard Bentley; after the lackluster reception of Mardi and Moby-Dick , however, Bentley refused to publish anything by Melville unless the author permitted him to "make or have made by a judicious literary friend such alterations as are absolutely necessary to Pierre being properly appreciated [in Great Britain]." Melville refused, so there was no separate British edition of Pierre Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, and savagely lampooning the American literary establishment, Pierre and its author were mauled by infuriated critics. The book sold very poorly, and the combination of publishing failure and critical hostility may have caused Melville to suffer a breakdown. It certainly affected his approach to writing, causing him to turn to short magazine articles and the almost-forgotten reworking of Israel Potter before attempting one final full-length novel with The Confidence-Man in 1857.
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Israel Potter
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Extractions: Return to Melville Home Page The traveller who at the present day is content to travel in the good old Asiatic style, neither rushed along by a locomotive, nor dragged by a stage-coach; who is willing to enjoy hospitalities at far-scattered farmhouses, instead of paying his bill at an inn; who is not to be frightened by any amount of loneliness, or to be deterred by the roughest roads or the highest hills; such a traveller in the eastern part of Berkshire, Mass., will find ample food for poetic reflection in the singular scenery of a country, which, owing to the ruggedness of the soil and its lying out of the track of all public conveyances, remains almost as unknown to the general tourist as the interior of Bohemia. opening paragraph Return to the top of this page Return to Melville Home Page Mr. Melville's works are unequal, but none of them can be charged with dullness.... Among the famous, Benjamin Franklin, and Capt. Paul Jones, have a part to play in this veritable history, which is a mixture of fun, gravity, romance and reality very taking from beginning to end. It will take its place among the best of its predecessors, and may certainly be said to belong to
Glbtq >> Literature >> Melville, Herman
The most important American novelist of the nineteenth century, herman melville reflects his homosexuality throughout his texts.
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Extractions: page: The most important American novelist of the nineteenth century, Herman Melville reflects his homosexuality throughout his texts. Melville was born in New York City to a prosperous and distinguished family. In 1830, his father's bankruptcy and subsequent madness brought a radical alteration in the young man's life. The sense of a patrician past, of a dark secret, and of a radical loss of social status remained with him forever. Although Maria Melville's family aided their now poor relations, further disasters followed quickly. Sponsor Message. Herman Melville thus became the impoverished but genteel man who is sent off to sea, a career for which he had in no way been prepared. In 1839, after his brother's bankruptcy, Herman shipped to Liverpool as a cabin boy, an experience that is recorded in his novel Redburn After his return, and a trip west, Melville sailed on a whaling ship in the South Seas, where he jumped ship in the Marquesas (an experience that inspired
Battle-Pieces
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Clarel
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Moby-Dick
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Extractions: A page from The Life and Works of Herman Melville Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Moby-Dick is available as an online text First British edition (entitled The Whale As letters to Richard Henry Dana and Richard Bentley attest, Melville was far along on a new book by May 1850. This latest work was apparently another relatively simple adventure narrative in the manner of Typee or Redburn Melville had promised Bentley that the book would be ready that autumn, in expectation of which he was sent an advance of 150 pounds. His financial situation was poor and he was desperately in need of a publishing success. Nevertheless, he abandoned the nearly-finished romance to spend an entire year rewriting under a spell of intense intellectual ferment further heightened by the study of Shakespeare and a developing friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The resulting work was finally shipped to Bentley on September 10, 1851: although it received many positive reviews, it sold poorly and accelerated the decline of Melville's literary reputation. The Epilogue , explaining how Ishmael survived the destruction of the Pequod , was inadvertently omitted from Bentley's edition, leading many British critics to condemn Melville for leaving no one alive to tell the first-person narrative (see
THE PIAZZA TALES
THE PIAZZA TALES herman melville Dix, Edwards, Co. New York. 1856. Table of Contents. HTML Edition Electronic Scholarly Publishing Prepared by Robert Robbins.
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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Extractions: A page from The Life and Works of Herman Melville Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative): Billy Budd, Sailor is available as an online text Written during Melville's retirement, between 1885 and 1891, Billy Budd was never completely finished. The manuscript was discovered among Melville's papers during the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s; it contains many unclearly indicated revisions and corrections regarding which the author's final intentions are uncertain. The first American edition, edited by Raymond Weaver, was published in 1924. Since then the text has undergone a number of revisions as scholars attempt to present Melville's readers with a more definitive version. Chief among these are Weaver's second edition (1928), the "literal text" of F. Barron Freeman (1948), and Hayford and Sealts's double texts. Return to the top of this page Return to Melville Home Page In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or like a bodyguard quite surround, some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the "Handsome Sailor" of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the offhand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.
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