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    The bibliography of Herman Melville includes magazine articles, book reviews, other occasional writings, and 15 books. Of these, seven books were published...
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    Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance...
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    known as the Herman Melville House, is a historic house museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was the home of American author Herman Melville during his...
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  • Bartleby, the Scrivener (category Short stories by Herman Melville)
    Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December...
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    Moby-Dick (category Novels by Herman Melville)
    Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal...
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    Aspects of the War is the first book of poetry of the American author Herman Melville. Published by Harper & Brothers of New York in 1866, the volume is...
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    The Herman Melville House is a historic home located at Lansingburgh in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was a home of author Herman Melville between...
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  • during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war...
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  • Hershel Parker (category Herman Melville)
    of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University...
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    Typee (category Novels by Herman Melville)
    Peep at Polynesian Life is American writer Herman Melville's first book, published in 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel...
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  • G. Thomas Tanselle (category Herman Melville)
    writings of Herman Melville. Tanselle was President of the Bibliographical Society of America from 1985- 1988. He was president of the Bibliographical Society...
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    Billy Budd (category Novels by Herman Melville)
    also known as Billy Budd, Foretopman, is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece...
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  • The Encantadas (category Short stories by Herman Melville)
    "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles", is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of eleven...
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    Benito Cereno (category Short stories by Herman Melville)
    Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first...
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  • Timoleon (poems) (category Poetry by Herman Melville)
    Minor Verse) is a collection of forty-two poems by American writer Herman Melville. It was privately published in May 1891, four months before the author's...
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  • Harrison M. Hayford (category Herman Melville)
    Illinois) was a scholar of American literature, most prominently of Herman Melville, a book-collector, and a textual editor. He taught at Northwestern...
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  • Father Mapple is a fictional character in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851). A former whaler, he has become a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's...
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  • Merton Sealts (category Herman Melville)
    focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville. His most important works are the genetic edition of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1962, co-edited...
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    illustrations by James Daugherty. The book was reviewed favorably by Herman Melville. However, he complains that it demeaned American Indians and its title...
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    USS United States (1797) (category Herman Melville)
    days later, and restored the government of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Herman Melville, the future author of Moby-Dick, enlisted as an ordinary seaman on...
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  • as inspiration for Captain Ahab, the whale-obsessed character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. George Pollard was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the...
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    Play-in-Progress Based on the Moby Dick Mythology and Dedicated to Herman Melville (1984) Forever and the Earth (1986) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The...
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    end, he encourages society: "Insist on yourself; never imitate." Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick has been read as a critique of Emerson's philosophy...
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    2011, she appeared in the television miniseries Moby Dick based on Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick (1851), as Elisabeth, Ahab's wife. The same year,...
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    Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-1714-7. Stott, Raymond Toole (1973). A Bibliography of the Works of W. Somerset Maugham. London: Kaye & Ward. ISBN 978-0-7182-0950-6...
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  • Peter's son Leonard. Peter's daughter, Maria, was the mother of author Herman Melville. Gansevoort was appointed a midshipman in the Navy on 4 March 1823...
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  • Stanley Thomas Williams (category Herman Melville)
    Washington Irving but he is best remembered for changing the study of Herman Melville by strategically directing doctoral dissertations on his life and works...
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  • Jay Leyda (category Herman Melville)
    as well as his documentary compilations on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Leyda was born on February 12, 1910, in Detroit...
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  • of Winston Churchill was published. In 2016 his biography of Herman Melville, Melville in Love, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins. Sheldon was born...
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    Billy Budd (opera) (category Adaptations of works by Herman Melville)
    Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville. Originally in four acts, the opera received its premiere at the Royal...
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