41. Great American History Fact-Finder - -Melville, Herman The Great American History FactFinder. melville, herman. (1819-91), author. melville, who came from an impoverished home, first went http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_123800_melvilleherm.ht

Entries Publication Data Dedication Advisory Board ... World Civilizations The Great American History Fact-Finder Melville, Herman , author. Melville, who came from an impoverished home, first went to sea as a cabin boy in 1839. A subsequent trip on a whaler in 1841-42 took him to the South Seas, where he jumped ship and lived for a time in the Marquesas Islands. At one point, he was held captive by savages before escaping to Tahiti, where he worked as a laborer, observing the people. These and subsequent experiences as a seaman provided the material for a series of highly popular sea novels, including Typee Omoo Mardi , and Redburn . These were followed by his masterpiece, Moby-Dick . Through its story of a whaling voyage and Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the "great white whale" that for him embodies evil, Melville explored symbolically the conflict between human beings and their fate. This and later books were not well received at the time by critics or his audience, who failed to understand his departure from pure adventure tales, and his popularity waned. He spent the last nineteen years of his life in obscurity, writing and working as a customs inspector. It was not until some thirty years after his death that his mastery of style, his narrative power, and his keen insights into the human condition came to be recognized by critics and readers. Site Map I Partners I Press Releases I Company Home I Contact Us Terms and Conditions of Use Privacy Statement , and Trademark Information

42. Melville House Bed And Breakfast Bed and Breakfast in downtown New Bedford. Restored 1800's Victorian home where herman melville had lodged. http://www.110.net/~pq1803/melville.html

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43. Herman Melville's Obituary Notices From the New York Times, Publisher's Weekly and other papers. http://www.melville.org/hmobit.htm

Herman Melville's Obituary Notices A page from The Life and Works of Herman Melville Melville died at home, of a heart attack, shortly after midnight on September 28, 1891. He was seventy-two years old; his last novel, The Confidence-Man , had been published more than three decades earlier. As the following notices suggest, he had been almost totally forgotten by all but a small group of admirers in Great Britain and the United States. In an article written about a year before his death (included below), columnist Edward W. Bok went so far as to state that most of those who could remember Melville in 1890 thought he had died long before. Melville is buried next to his wife Elizabeth Shaw in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. ARTICLE BY EDWARD W. BOK, IN NEW YORK PUBLISHERS' WEEKLY, NOVEMBER 15 1890 There are more people to-day, writes Edward Bok, who believe Herman Melville dead than there are those who know he is living. And yet if one choose to walk along East Eighteenth Street, New York City, any morning about 9 o'clock, he would see the famous writer of sea stories stories which have never been equalled perhaps in their special line. Mr. Melville is now an old man, but still vigorous. He is an employee of the Customs Revenue Service, and thus still lingers around the atmosphere which permeated his books. Forty-four years ago, when his most famous tale, Typee , appeared, there was not a better known author than he, and he commanded his own prices. Publishers sought him, and editors considered themselves fortunate to secure his name as a literary star. And to-day? Busy New York has no idea he is even alive, and one of the best-informed literary men in this country laughed recently at my statement that Herman Melville was his neighbor by only two city blocks. "Nonsense," said he. "Why, Melville is dead these many years!" Talk about literary fame? There's a sample of it!

44. Herman Melville. Biography And Complete Works Life and complete works of herman melville. Free electronic books, links and much more. HOME. Author melville, herman, en español Versión en español. http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/melville.htm

Search for a writer: (enter last name) Or browse our list: A B C D ... Z Want to be listed here? Submit your data and get published! Search Now: HOME Author: Melville, Herman Date and Place of birth: b. 1st. August, 1819 in New York City, U.S. d. 28th. September, 1891, New York, U.S. Life and Works: American novelist and poet, a major literary figure whose exploration of psychological and metaphysical themes foreshadowed 20th-century literary concerns. The fictionalized travel narrative of Typee (1846) was Melville's most popular book during his lifetime, but his works remained in obscurity until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville is best-known for his novels of the sea and his masterpiece Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (1851), a whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne Melville was born in New York City, into a family whose fortunes had declined. He was the third child of eight. His father, Allan Melvill, an importer of French dry goods, became bankrupt and insane, dying when Melville was 12. His mother, Maria Gansevoort Melvill, was left alone to raise eight children. He left the school and was largely autodidact, devouring Shakespeare as well as historical, anthropological, and technical works. He became a bank clerk, but in search of adventure in 1839 he shipped to Liverpool, England, as a cabin boy. When he returned to the United States he taught school and then sailed for the South Seas in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet. After an 18-month voyage Melville deserted the ship in the Marquesas Islands and with a companion lived for a month among the natives, who were cannibals. He escaped aboard an Australian trader, leaving it at Papeete, Tahiti, where he was imprisoned temporarily. He worked as a field laborer and then shipped to Honolulu, Hawaii, where in 1843 he enlisted as a seaman on the U.S. Navy frigate United States.

45. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: Dem An Outline of American Literature. by Kathryn VanSpanckeren. The Romantic Period, 18201860 Fiction herman melville (1819-1891). *** Index ***. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/melville.htm

FRtR Outlines American Literature Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776-1820: Writers of fiction: Herman Melville (1819-1891) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction: Herman Melville (1819-1891) Index Herman Melville, like Nathaniel Hawthorne , was a descendant of an old, wealthy family that fell abruptly into poverty upon the death of the father. Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, Melville found himself in poverty with no college education. At 19 he went to sea. His interest in sailors' lives grew naturally out of his own experiences, and most of his early novels grew out of his voyages. In these we see the young Melville's wide, democratic experience and hatred of tyranny and injustice. His first book, Typee , was based on his time spent among the supposedly cannibalistic but hospitable tribe of the Taipis in the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific. The book praises the islanders and their natural, harmonious life, and criticizes the Christian missionaries, who Melville found less genuinely civilized than the people they came to convert. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

46. Herman Melville Discussion Port Forum at Western Canon Great Books University. http://classicals.com/federalist/HermanMelvillehall/wwwboard.html

47. Herman Melville Biograf­a, estudios cr­ticos y enlace a informaci³n y an¡lisis de la obra Moby Dick or the White Whale . http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/es/biblio/base9/melville.html

Herman Melville Autor (1819-1891) Nationalidad : americano. En 1846, cuenta sus aventuras en Taïpi y en 1847, publica " Omoo Martes Moby Dick Billy Bud ", donde, si cita temas que le son familiares de la justicia y de la muerte le parecen menos peligroso que en el pasado. Melville muere el 28 de septiembre de 1891. Herman Melville y Moby Dick : Moby Dick o la ballena Blanca Moby Dick or the white Whales El embrollo de los episodios realistas y de los desarrollos simbolistas, mostrando en Moby Dick Pierre y las Antigüedades ", melville evoca, en un ambiente de incesto, el conflicto del bien y del mal. En 1851, los lectores estuvieron desconcertados por todo lo que transformaba el relato de " Moby Dick

48. Collecting Herman Melville An essay detailing the difficulty and allure in collecting works by melville. Contains biographical information as well as information on his works and their popularity through the last century. http://www.reeseco.com/papers/melville.htm

COLLECTING HERMAN MELVILLE by William S. Reese (From The Gazette of the Grolier Club Nineteen-ninety-one marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Herman Melville. Numerous observances were held to commemorate the work of that remarkable American writer, so widely forgotten a century ago and so widely celebrated today. The centenary was another step in the evolving attitude toward the man and his work. The re-evaluation of Melville's literary career began even before his death, and has grown in ever-widening circles ever since. Today it is a healthy small industry, especially in the academic arena, where biographers, critics and interpreters, as well as biographers of critics and critics of biographers, assiduously work away. In this whole imposing edifice of Melville studies, booksellers and book collectors have played a role, sometimes aiding scholarship and sometimes paralleling it. And, at the same time, intentionally or not, they have shaped some part of the way Melville is read today. I came to be a collector of Melville, and hence a participant in the modern Melville world, purely as an amateur. Hearing Robert Penn Warren read from

49. Herman Melville's Billy Budd This website is dedicated to helping students of literature at all levels better understand herman melville s complex short novel, Billy Budd. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/bb/bb_main.html

Editor's Preface This website is dedicated to helping students of literature at all levels better understand Herman Melville's complex short novel, Billy Budd . Decidedly, these pages are not designed as an on-line "Cliff's Notes" edition of the work. Nowhere will you find synopses which "explain" the story or reveal some "hidden meaning." Nothing in this site will provide definitive answers to the difficult questions which this text raises, nor will it provide a template for the student seeking a quick and easy solution to the various problems it poses. Rather, this site should serve merely to enrich one's reading of Billy Budd by providing readily more information than otherwise might be accessible to most students. The designer of this site has brought together resources which might help clarify Melville's dense vocabulary, provide a framework for some of the lines of allusion, help the student better visualize the naval scenes, and generally provide some structure for the student so that his reading is as full as possible. One should note, however, that everything included here presupposes that reading and understanding Billy Budd can ultimately only be the product of hard work and attention to detail.

50. Marcha - Doble Lectura De Herman Melville Ensayo de Rodr­guez Monegal, originalmente publicado en Marcha, Montevideo, nº 284, A±o 1945. http://mll.cas.buffalo.edu/rodriguez-monegal/bibliografia/prensa/artpren/marcha/

"Doble lectura de Herman Melville" En Marcha p. 15. La ballena blanca Moby Dick La ballena blanca Moby Dick La ballena blanca que es posible hacer hoy, cerca de su centenario. La ballena blanca ; sospecho que esa es la lectura que Melville solicitaba -la exacta y simétrica actitud del ferviente colaborador. En 1851, Melville escribía desde PITTSFIELD a su amigo HAWTHORNE: " ". Ese metafórico fuego aludido estaba encendido brutalmente en Melville e ilumina todavía al lector. Pero la crítica no dice las cosas así, ya que pretende ser una actividad rigurosa; la crítica analiza desapasionadamente la estructura del libro y su intención; prescinde (al menos en teoría) de toda comunicación simpática; la crítica se atiene a los resultados. Al enjuiciar MOBY DICK señala ante todo que la intención de Melville aparece problemática. La sospecha de que toda la obra encierra una alegoría parece verse confirmada por la innecesaria vehemencia de su autor al negarlo. Un extenso párrafo declara que " Benito Cereno Responsables L. Block de Behar

51. The Confidence-Man Hypertext Editions Consulted. melville, herman. The ConfidenceMan His Masquerade. Vol. 10 of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of herman melville. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/atkins/cmmain.html

For an explanation of this project Prospectus Editions Consulted Melville, Herman. The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade Foster, Elizabeth S., ed. The Confidence-Man . New York: Hendricks House, 1954. Franklin, H. Bruce, ed. The Confidence-Man . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. Hayford, Harrison, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, eds. The Confidence-Man . Vol. 10 of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville . Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1984. Matterson, Stephen, ed. The Confidence-Man . London: Penguin Books, 1990. Parker, Hershel, ed. The Confidence-Man . New York: Norton, 1971. Annotated Bibliography Bellis, Peter J. "Melville's The Confidence-Man : An Uncharitable Interpretation." American Literature 59 (Dec. 1987): 548-569. Argues against the "standard line" of interpretation, which, he states, impose a unifying framework of moral and allegorical readings upon the text, and demonstrate "a considerable degree of interpretive blindness." States that " The Confidence-Man endorses neither belief nor disbelief," but instead subverts all attempts at an interpretation of some underlying "unifying principle." Sees the story of "Indian-Hating" as having been over-emphasized by critics seeking within it a moral understanding, and reads the book's final passage as "a paradigm for all reading," showing that "textual unity and consistency are produced not by interpretation but by exclusion."

52. Creative Quotations From Herman Melville (1819-1891) Creative Quotations from . . . herman melville (18191891) born on Aug 3 US novelist. Search millions of documents for herman melville. Highbeam Research, http://www.creativequotations.com/one/175.htm

CQHome Search CQ CQ Indexes CQ E-books ... creative Creative Quotations from . . . Herman Melville 1819-1891) born on Aug 3 US novelist. He is noted for his stories of the sea, especially the classic "Moby Dick," 1851. Search millions of documents for Herman Melville Creative Hats Tshirts African Cichlids For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius's crater for an ink stand. . . . To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on a flea, though many there be that have tried it. If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good? An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward. Published Sources for Quotations Above: F: Moby-Dick, ch. 110, 1851.

53. Herman Melville Forum and live chat devoted to discussing the author's life and works. http://killdevilhill.com/melvillechat/wwwboard.html

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54. Herman Melville - The Academy Of American Poets Short biography. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=240

55. MSN Encarta - Melville, Herman Encyclopedia Article, from, Encarta, Advertisement. melville, herman. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564267/Melville_Herman.html

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56. Herman Melville In Antebellum America Based on an course offered in the Spring of 1998 at Northwestern CT CommunityTechnical College. Focuses on the literature of herman melville as it relates to the issues of antebellum America. http://www.nwctc.commnet.edu/fox/melville/classmaster.htm

We invite you to look at antebellum America through the eyes of Herman Melville. Yes, these are Herman Melville's glasses! This picture was taken by special arrangement in his study at Arrowhead during our field trip. (Photo by er!N King.) This website is based on an experimental course offered in the Spring of 1998 at Northwestern CT Community-Technical College called Technology for the Humanities: Herman Melville in Antebellum America . The course was designed to use electronic technologies to enhance the study of the literature and history. Class members were Charlotte Baldwin, Lillian Cromey, er!N King, Danielle Sansone, Greg Shell, Dan Tobin and Chris Woodams. Instructor was Kathie Fox. Typee, Moby-Dick, Benito Cereno , and Bartleby the Scrivener Hypertext papers written throughout the semester link the history with the literature and the students' intersecting ideas and themes with each other. Multimedia and external hyperlinks amplified the scholarship and helped create a page which we hope is fun to surf. (The site may look simple,but it contains approximately 115 different files including text, graphics and sound.) Chronology- Danielle Sansone Historical Issues - (Click on the icons) Racial Hierarchy -Greg Shell Manifest Destiny/Missionary Movement - Dan Tobin Industrial Revolution/Urbanization - Danielle Sansone Whaling Industry - er!N King

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58. Great Books Index - Herman Melville Great Books Index. Etexts http://books.mirror.org/gb.melville.html

GREAT BOOKS INDEX Herman Melville (1819-1891) An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation AUTHORS/HOME TITLES ABOUT GB INDEX BOOK LINKS Writings of Herman Melville Moby Dick Billy Budd Bartleby, the Scrivener Typee ... Confidence-Man Moby Dick; or, The Whale HTML edition (Litrix) HTML edition (Virginia) HTML edition (Toronto) HTML pages (Michigan) Text file (gopher, Minnesota) Each chapter is a separate text file. They are in alphabetical order by chapter number. This is a bit odd-looking for instance, chapter 1 alphabetizes following chapter 19 but it's there. Text edition in one file (Mirror, 1.3MB) Text edition in one file (ftp, Wiretap) Almost complete text edition in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, ZIP file, 600KB) May be missing chapter 72. [Back to Top of Page] Billy Budd Text edition in one file (Mirror, 190KB) HTML edition (Bibliomania) [Back to Top of Page] Bartleby, the Scrivener HTML pages (Bartleby) HTML pages (Michigan) HTML edition (Toronto) [Back to Top of Page] Typee Text edition in one file (Mirror, 580KB) [Back to Top of Page] The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids Complete work in one file (Virginia) [Back to Top of Page] Benito Cereno HTML edition (Mirror) Text edition in one file (Mirror, 190KB)

59. Melville, Herman encyclopediaEncyclopedia melville, herman. Related content from HighBeam Research on herman melville. herman melville, immortality, St. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0832614.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Melville, Herman Melville, Herman, , American author, b. New York City, considered one of the great American writers and a major figure in world literature. Sections in this article: Introduction Early Life and Works Moby-Dick Later Works and Life Bibliography The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Melville, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville Island, Australia Related content from HighBeam Research on: Herman Melville "Born-free-and-equal": benign cliche and narrative imperialism in Melville's 'Mardi.' (Herman Melville) (Studies in the Novel) Colonialism and Melville's South Seas journeys. (Herman Melville) (Studies in American Fiction) Works of Herman Melville: Essay Questions and Bibliography (Monarch Notes) Fabricating ideology: clothing, culture, and colonialism in Melville's 'Typee.' (Herman Melville)

60. "The Bell-Tower" Online text from The Life and Works of herman melville. http://www.melville.org/belltowr.htm

The Bell-Tower In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank mold cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance, seems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in forgotten days, with Anak and the Titan. As all along where the pine tree falls, its dissolution leaves a mossy mound last-flung shadow of the perished trunk; never lengthening, never lessening; unsubject to the fleet falsities of the sun; shade immutable, and true gauge which cometh by prostration so westward from what seems the stump, one steadfast spear of lichened ruin veins the plain. From that treetop, what birded chimes of silver throats had rung. A stone pine, a metallic aviary in its crown: the Bell-Tower, built by the great mechanician, the unblest foundling, Bannadonna. Like Babel's, its base was laid in a high hour of renovated earth, following the second deluge, when the waters of the Dark Ages had dried up and once more the green appeared. No wonder that, after so long and deep submersion, the jubilant expectation of the race should, as with Noah's sons, soar into Shinar aspiration. In firm resolve, no man in Europe at that period went beyond Bannadonna. Enriched through commerce with the Levant, the state in which he lived voted to have the noblest Bell-Tower in Italy. His repute assigned him to be architect.

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