Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or the Whale
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Herman Melville
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …
Typee
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Herman Melville
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
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Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…
Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymo…
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
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Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on Ap…
Benito Cereno
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Herman Melville
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
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Herman Melville
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
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Herman Melville
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leavi…
Redburn: His First Voyage
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Herman Melville
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…
Billy Budd
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Herman Melville
Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summar…
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
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Herman Melville
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists…
Moby Dick (CBC, 1949)
Herman Melville
The 1949 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio adaptation, broadcast March 6, 1949 on CBC Stage 49 and starring Lorne Greene as Ahab…
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…
Mardi Vol. 2
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Herman Melville
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …
The Piazza Tales
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Herman Melville
A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, "…
Mardi Vol. 1
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Herman Melville
"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the …
Pierre, or The Ambiguities
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Herman Melville
The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.
Moby Dick (The World's Greatest Novels, NBC, 1947)
Herman Melville
A 4-part radio adaptation, broadcast on NBC's The World's Greatest Novels January 3 - 24, 1947.
Moby Dick (Favorite Story, NBC, 1947)
Herman Melville
The 1947 NBC radio adaptation, broadcast on Favorite Story on February 2, 1947 Host: Ronald Colman Ahab: William Conrad Starbuck: Fran…
Moby Dick (Columbia Workshop, CBS,1946)
Herman Melville
A two-part radio adaptation, broadcast on CBS' Columbia Workshop in October 1946 and featuring Neil O'Mally, Sidney Smith and Charles …
Moby Dick (American Novels, NBC, 1947)
Herman Melville
The first episode in the NBC radio series American Novels, broadcast on July 4, 1947.
Moby Dick; or, The Whale (version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Herman Melville
This great, genre-bending novel nominally centres on the quest of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab to gain revenge for the loss of his leg to a…
Clarel
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Herman Melville
An epic poem, the eponymous pilgrim's journey to the Holy Land. - Summary by Matthew Muñoz
The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches
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Herman Melville
A collection of short stories by Herman Melville, including the title story The Apple-Tree Table, I and My Chimney, The Happy Failure, and s…
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…