Herman Melville
![Melville depicted in an 1870 portrait by [[Joseph Oriel Eaton]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Herman_Melville_by_Joseph_O_Eaton.jpg)
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler ''Acushnet'', but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. ''Typee'', his first book, and its sequel, ''Omoo'' (1847), were travel-adventures based on his encounters with the peoples of the islands. Their success gave him the financial security to marry Elizabeth Shaw, the daughter of the Boston jurist Lemuel Shaw. ''Mardi'' (1849), a romance-adventure and his first book not based on his own experience, was not well received. ''Redburn'' (1849) and ''White-Jacket'' (1850), both tales based on his experience as a well-born young man at sea, were given respectable reviews, but did not sell well enough to support his expanding family.
Melville's growing literary ambition showed in ''Moby-Dick'' (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience, and critics scorned his psychological novel ''Pierre: or, The Ambiguities'' (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, ''The Confidence-Man'' (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as a United States customs inspector.
From that point, Melville focused his creative powers on poetry. ''Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War'' (1866) was his poetic reflection on the moral questions of the American Civil War. In 1867, his eldest child Malcolm died at home from a self-inflicted gunshot. Melville's metaphysical epic ''Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land'' was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella ''Billy Budd'' was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891. Provided by Wikipedia
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Moby-Dick, or, The whale / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby Dick, or, The white whale / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby-Dick / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby Dick, or, The White Whale / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby-Dick, or, The whale / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby Dick / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Billy Budd, sailor, and other stories / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby Dick, or, The whale / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby Dick / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Confidence-Man : his masquerade / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Typee / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Short novels / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Billy Budd, foretopman ; The encantadas, or Enchanted Isles / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Billy Budd, and other tales / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Pierre ; Israel Potter ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Typee : a peep at Polynesian life ; Omoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas ; Mardi, and a voyage thither / by Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Moby Dick. / by Melville, Herman ; 1819 - 1891
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