Herman Melville

After spending the summer of 1853 in the Berkshire Mountains, where he supposedly had a r...

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street" is a novella written by Herman Melville...

Step into the world of Herman Melville's masterful storytelling with our short story coll...

Critically acclaimed for more than 100 years, Herman Melville's sea tale, Billy Budd, is ...

This epic sea adventure, a harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship, is...

The life of a scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do wi...

On one level Melville’s tale is an historical adventure story telling of life aboar...

A maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Written some forty years after...

Billy Budd, an orphaned, illegitimate child suffused with innocence, openness, and natura...

Herman Melvilles tale of corporate discontent, Bartleby, the Scrivener, tells the story o...

Melville’s Bartleby is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduo...

Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the ...

In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard w...

While sitting on his private piazza, the narrator imagines life at an idyllic home in the...

When an American sea captain sees a Spanish slave ship in distress, he reaches out with a...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Her...

Representing the dark underbelly of Romanticism and beyond, these stories reach the shado...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is...

The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the wha...

Captain Delano is approached on the open sea by a battered-looking ship lead by Captain B...

The Encantadas (or Enchanted Isles), is a series of ten descriptive sketches, and a remin...

Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with...

Written as an introductory story to The Piazza Tales, the protagonist of The Piazza, idea...