Herman Melville



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Herman Melville

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born
in New York City, New York, The United States
August 01, 1819

died
September 28, 1891

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories

influences
Thomas Browne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Milton, Edgar Allan Poe, Will...more


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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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Herman Melville's Books

Average rating: 3.39 · 297,818 ratings · 8,667 reviews · 153 distinct works · Similar authors
Moby-Dick
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 260,380 ratings — published 1851 — 958 editions
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Bartleby, the Scrivener
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 12,831 ratings — published 1853 — 147 editions
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Billy Budd, Sailor
2.98 of 5 stars 2.98 avg rating — 7,194 ratings — published 1924 — 112 editions
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Benito Cereno
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 1855 — 32 editions
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Billy Budd and Other Stories
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 2,560 ratings — published 1924 — 36 editions
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian...
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 1,836 ratings — published 1846 — 163 editions
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Bartleby and Benito Cereno
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,099 ratings — 5 editions
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The Confidence-Man
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,096 ratings — published 1857 — 81 editions
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Redburn/White-Jacket/Moby-D...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1851 — 2 editions
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Pierre: or, the Ambiguities
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1852 — 35 editions
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Quotes by Herman Melville

“A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
― Herman Melville, Pierre: or, the Ambiguities
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville
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