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Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. When his father died, he was forced to leave school and find work. After passing through some minor clerical jobs, the eighteen-year-old young man shipped out to sea, first on a short cargo trip, then, at twenty-one, on a three-year South Sea whaling venture. From the experiences accumulated on this voyage would come the material for his early books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), as well as for such masterpieces as Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre (1852), The Piazza Tales (1856) and Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories (posthumous, 1924).
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Moby-Dick
Format: Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 704 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1981
Price: $4.95
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead... Read more >
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Moby Dick
Format: Hardcover, 864 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow", was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 864 pages
On Sale: September 5, 1992
Price: $23.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow", was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the... Read more >
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Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1982
Price: $4.95
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." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social... Read more >
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Moby-Dick
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $12.95
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Price: $12.95
First published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of... Read more >
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Moby-Dick
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow", was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1991
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow", was how D.H. Lawrence characterized MOBY-DICK. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden, and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the... Read more >
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Four Great American Classics
Format: Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical... Read more >
Format: Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $7.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical... Read more >
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The Confidence-Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.”... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $12.95
“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.”... Read more >
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Typee
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $12.95
Melville's first and most popular novel during his lifetime, Typee is a provocative and lively account of his exploits in the exotic South Seas during the early 1840s, where he journeyed as a young sailor. This edition includes notes on the text. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $12.95
Melville's first and most popular novel during his lifetime, Typee is a provocative and lively account of his exploits in the exotic South Seas during the early 1840s, where he journeyed as a young sailor. This edition includes notes on the text. Read more >
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Redburn
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $14.95
Drawn from Melville’s own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 10, 2002
Price: $14.95
Drawn from Melville’s own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged... Read more >
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Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $29.00
From short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology–the first of its kind in fifty years–gathers together all of Melville’s tales, as well... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $29.00
From short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville’s stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology–the first of its kind in fifty years–gathers together all of Melville’s tales, as well... Read more >
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Complete Shorter Fiction
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1997
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
On Sale: October 15, 1997
Price: $22.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than... Read more >
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The Confidence-Man
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.”... Read more >
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.”... Read more >
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Moby-Dick
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $4.95
Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $4.95
Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a... Read more >
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Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $4.95
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On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $4.95
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Four Great American Classics
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $7.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $7.99
These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.
The Scarlet Letter vividly records America’s moral and historical... Read more >
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The Piazza Tales
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $14.50
First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, The Piazza Tales comprises six of Herman Melville's finest short stories. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: 'Benito Cereno,' an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $14.50
First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, The Piazza Tales comprises six of Herman Melville's finest short stories. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: 'Benito Cereno,' an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is... Read more >
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Melville: Six Short Novels
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 1, 1974
Price: $17.50
This collection reveals the genius of one of America's greatest writers. "Bartleby the Scrivener" is a maddening, yet poignant story of a man "who prefers not to" obey his attorney-employer who goes to extraordinary lengths in his attempt to placate his recalcitrant clerk.
"Billy Budd" relates the fate of an innocent... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 1, 1974
Price: $17.50
This collection reveals the genius of one of America's greatest writers. "Bartleby the Scrivener" is a maddening, yet poignant story of a man "who prefers not to" obey his attorney-employer who goes to extraordinary lengths in his attempt to placate his recalcitrant clerk.
"Billy Budd" relates the fate of an innocent... Read more >
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