Author:Herman Melville

Herman Melville
(1819–1891)

1870 portrait

Works

Novels

• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, (1846)
  • Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands, British Edition (transcription project)
  • American Edition with slight censorship (transcription project) (The existing non-scan-backed text at Typee is clearly derived from some American edition, but lacks detailed sourcing)
• Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, (1847)
• Mardi: And a Voyage Thither, (1849)
• Redburn: His First Voyage, (1849)
• White-Jacket: or, the World in a Man-of-War, (1850)
• Moby-Dick, (1851)
• Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, (1852)
• Isle of the Cross, (1853) unpublished & lost
• Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, (1855)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, (1857)
• Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative, (1924)

Short Stories & Sketches

• The Piazza Tales (1856)
  • The Piazza
  • Bartleby the Scrivener
  • Benito Cereno
  • The Lightning Rod Man
  • The Encantadas
  • The Bell-Tower

• Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! (December 1853)
• Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs (June 1854)
• The Happy Failure (July 1854)
• The Fiddler (September 1854)
• The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids (April 1855)
• Jimmy Rose (November 1855)
• The 'Gees (March 1856)
• I and My Chimney, (March 1856)
• The Apple-Tree Table (May 1856)

Unpublished in his lifetime

• The Two Temples
• Daniel Orme

Criticism

• Hawthorne and His Mosses, (Uncollected; Published in New York Literary World, August 24 1850)

Notebooks, letters & journals

• Narrative of a Four Months' Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands
• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography, Meade Minnigerode, 1922, IA

Poetry

• The Martyr, (1865)
• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, (1866)
• Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, (1876)
• John Marr and other poems, (1888) IA
• Shiloh: A Requiem, (1862)

Works about Melville

• "Melville, Herman," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• Herman Melville : Mariner and Mystic, Raymond M. Weaver, 1921, IA
• "Melville, Herman," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature: Herman Melville's Moby Dick
• D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature: Herman Melville's Typee and Omoo
• The Best Sea Story Ever Written, 1914, Archibald MacMechan IA