Herman Melville

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born

August 01, 1819

died

December 13, 1901

gender

male

place of birth

New York City, New York, United States

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public — was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

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books by Herman Melville

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avg rating: 3.69 | 16539 ratings | 177 distinct works

	Moby Dick (Audio CD) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.69 — 4986 ratings — published 1851 360 editions	my rating:
	Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.94 — 1532 ratings — published 2004 43 editions	my rating:
	Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.02 — 1140 ratings — published 1924 70 editions	my rating:
	Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.47 — 500 ratings — published 1986 21 editions	my rating:
	Bartleby and Benito Cereno (Dover Thrift Editions) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.96 — 327 ratings — published 1990 2 editions	my rating:
	Typee (Paperback) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.45 — 320 ratings — published 1846 41 editions	my rating:
	Benito Cereno (Paperback) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.82 — 270 ratings — published 2006 6 editions	my rating:
	Herman Melville : Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (Library of America) by Herman Melville avg rating 4.11 — 233 ratings — published 1983	my rating:
	The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.69 — 202 ratings — published 1999 42 editions	my rating:
	Pierre, or the Ambiguities (Hardcover) by Herman Melville avg rating 3.70 — 116 ratings — published 1852 9 editions	my rating: