Herman Melville
Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
August 01, 1819
Died
September 28, 1891
Genre
Influences
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Moby-Dick or, the Whale
11987 editions
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1851
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
47 editions
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published
1853
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Billy Budd, Sailor
541 editions
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published
1924
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Benito Cereno
56 editions
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published
1855
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
3164 editions
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published
1846
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Billy Budd and Other Stories
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9 editions
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published
1853
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The Confidence-Man
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1926 editions
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published
1857
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Bartleby and Benito Cereno
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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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645 editions
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1852
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Redburn / White-Jacket / Moby-Dick
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8 editions
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1851
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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Moby-Dick or, the Whale
― Moby-Dick or, the Whale
Polls
September 2022 Revisit the Shelves Poll
Villette by Charlotte Brontë (1853) 573 pages, Last read in April 2017
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (1985) 263 pp., last read July 2015
Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories by Truman Capote (1958) 142 pages - only the title story - last read Oct. 2016
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) 314 pages, last read Feb. 2017.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) 279 pp. last read in 2017
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville (1851), 654 pages, last read as a long-read April-June 2017
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