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"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land." -- Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd.His first three books gained much attention, the first becoming a bestseller, but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.

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Total Books: 1521
Moby Dick The Original 1851 Edition
2023 - Moby Dick the Original 1851 Edition [A Herman Melville Classic Novel] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9798373322577
ISBN-10: N/A
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Moby Dick
2022 - Moby Dick [Wordsworth Collector's Editions] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781840228304
ISBN-10: 184022830X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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MobyDick
2022 - Mobydick [Oxford World's Classics] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780198853695
ISBN-10: 0198853696
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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I Would Prefer Not To Essential Stories
2021 - I Would Prefer Not to Essential Stories (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781782277460
ISBN-10: 1782277463
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville
2020 - Moby Dick By Herman Melville (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9798612823810
ISBN-10: N/A
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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VareuseBlanche ou Le monde d'un navire de guerre
2020 - Vareuseblanche Ou Le Monde D'un Navire De Guerre (Other)
ISBN-13: 9782070127245
ISBN-10: 2070127249
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Pierre ou Les ambiguts
2020 - Pierre Ou Les Ambiguts (Other)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9782072886454
ISBN-10: 2072886457
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Le bonheur dans l'chec prcd de Cocorico
2019 - Le Bonheur Dans L'chec Prcd De Cocorico (Other)
ISBN-13: 9782743648718
ISBN-10: 2743648716
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Herman Melville Complete Poems  BattlePieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous
2019 - Herman Melville Complete Poems Battlepieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors / Timoleon / Posthumous [LOA #320 - Library of America Herman Melville Edition] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781598536188
ISBN-10: 1598536184
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The AppleTree Table and Other Sketches
2019 - The Appletree Table and Other Sketches [Chinese Edition] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9787541153914
ISBN-10: 7541153915
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Moby Dick Herman Melville Classic Novel  Ribbon Page Marker Perfect for Gifting
2019 - Moby Dick Herman Melville Classic Novel Ribbon Page Marker Perfect for Gifting [Travel and Adventure, Captain Ahab, Whaling, Sailing and Fishing Tale] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781926444307
ISBN-10: 1926444302
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Bartleby  el escribiente
2019 - Bartleby El Escribiente [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781090932358
ISBN-10: 1090932359
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Moby Dick The Illustrated Novel
2018 - Moby Dick the Illustrated Novel (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781681778488
ISBN-10: 1681778483
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Blackout Poetry Poetic Therapy Moby Dick or The Whale
2017 - Blackout Poetry Poetic Therapy Moby Dick or the Whale (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781981730858
ISBN-10: 1981730850
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference
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The ConfidenceMan His Masquerade
2017 - The Confidenceman His Masquerade [Dover Thrift Editions] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780486817514
ISBN-10: 0486817512
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Billy Budd
2017 - Billy Budd (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781420956214
ISBN-10: 1420956213
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Billy Budd Sailor
2017 - Billy Budd Sailor [Dover Thrift Editions] (Paperback)Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780486813639
ISBN-10: 0486813630
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Moby Dick Novel
2017 - Moby Dick Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781520502052
ISBN-10: 1520502052
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Moby Dick / Spanish Edition
2017 - Moby Dick / Spanish Edition [Penguin Clasicos] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9788491050209
ISBN-10: 8491050205
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Omoo   Adventures in the South Seas
2016 - Omoo Adventures in the South Seas (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781535264631
ISBN-10: 1535264632
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Pierre Or The Ambiguities
2016 - Pierre or the Ambiguities [Norton Critical Editions] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780393938944
ISBN-10: 0393938948
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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2016 - Billy Budd Bartleby and Other Stories [Penguin Classics Edition] (Paperback)
2015 - Moby Dick Unabridged Edition [Immortal Classics] (Paperback)
2014 - Billy Budd and Other Stories [Collins Classics] (Paperback)
2014 - Whitejacket the World in a Manofwar [The Melville Collection - Volume 5] (Paperback)
2014 - Redburn His First Voyage [The Melville Collection - Volume 4] (Paperback)
2014 - Mobydick Sparknotes Literature Guide [SparkNotes Literature Guide Series] (Paperback)
2014 - Moby Dick [Junior Classics for Young Readers] (Paperback)Paperback
2013 - Moby Dick Audiobook [Timeless Classics] (Audio CD)
2011 - Level 2 Moby Dick Book and Mp3 Pack [Pearson English Graded Readers] (Paperback)
2011 - Moby Dick [Junior Classics for Young Readers] (Paperback)Paperback
2010 - Monster Stories Face Your Fears [Living Time World Fiction] (Paperback)
2010 - Classic Starts Mobydick [Classic Starts Series] (Hardcover)
2010 - Mobydick or the Whale [Volume 1] (Paperback)
2009 - The Abc Short Story Collection [Classic Books on CD Collection - UNABRIDGED - Classic Books on Cds Collection] (Audio CD)
2009 - Mardi Vol 2 and a Voyage Thither [Classic Reprint] (Paperback)
2009 - Bartleby O Escribente [Xabaril] (Paperback)
2009 - Billy Budd and Other Tales [Signet Classics] (Paperback)
 
2009 - The Happy Failure Stories [Harper Perennial Classic Stories] (Paperback)
2009 - Billy Budd Sailor and Selected Tales [Oxford Worlds Classics] (Paperback)
2009 - Short Stories of Herman Melville [World Classics in Large Print; American Authors] (Paperback)
2009 - Compass Classic Readers Moby Dick [Level 5 with Audio CD] (Other)
2009 - Cocorico [French Edition] (Paperback)
2009 - Bartleby El Escribiente [Libros Del Tiempo - Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)
2008 - Mardi and a Voyage Thither Volume I [Large Print Edition] (Hardcover)
2008 - Collected Works of Herman Melville [Large Print Edition] (Hardcover)
2008 - Moby Dick Cd for Pack Level 2 [Penguin Readers Simplified Text] (Audio CD)
2008 - Moby Dick Level 2 [Penguin Readers Simplified Text] (Paperback)
2008 - Cuentos Completos/ Complete Stories [Clasicos - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Omoo Adventures in the South Seas [EasyRead Large Bold Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories [EasyRead Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Redburn His First Voyage Volume I of II [EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Pierre (Paperback)Paperback
2007 - Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories Volume 1 of 2 [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories Volume 2 of 2 [EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Moby Dick or the White Whale [Large Print Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - I My Chimney [DODO PRESS] (Paperback)
2007 - Moby Dick in Half the Time [Compact Editions] (Paperback)
2007 - Le Paradis Des Clibataires [French Edition] (Paperback)
2007 - Billy Buddsailor [American Collection] (Audio CD)
2006 - Moby Dick the Whale [Volume I] (Paperback)
2006 - Moby Dick the Whale Volume I [EasyRead Large Edition] (Paperback)
2006 - Moby Dick the Whale Volume II [EasyRead Large Edition] (Paperback)
2006 - Oeuvres [French Edition] (Hardcover)
2006 - Moby Dick a Longman Critical Edition [Longman Critical Readers] (Paperback)
2006 - Moby Dick / Moby Dick [Z - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2006 - Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales [Barnes & Noble Classics Series - Barnes & Noble Classics] (Paperback)
2006 - Herman Melville [Selected Works series] (Hardcover)
2006 - Confidenceman The [Large Print] (Paperback)
2006 - Piazza Tales The [Large Print] (Paperback)
2005 - The Confidence Man Second Edition [Norton Critical Edition] (Paperback)
2005 - Billy Budd Beginner [Macmillan Readers] (Paperback)
2005 - The Encantadas and Other Stories [Thrift Edition] (Paperback)
2004 - Moby Dick [Treasury of Illustrated Classics] (Hardcover)
2004 - Bartleby the Scrivener a Story of Wall Street [The Art of the Novella series] (Paperback)
2004 - Great Short Works of Herman Melville [Perennial Classics] (Paperback)Hardcover
2003 - Three American Poets [Penguin Classics] (Paperback)
2003 - Bartleby Le Scribe [bilingue : Américain - Français] (Paperback)
2003 - Bartelby the Scribe Bartelby the Scrivener [French and English Bilingual Ediiton] (Paperback)
2002 - Tales Poems and Other Writings [Modern Library Classics] (Paperback)
2002 - Bartleby El Escribiente / Bartleby the Scrivener [Literatura/ Literature - Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
2002 - Great American Short Stories [Lernmaterialien] (Paperback)
2001 - Melville's Short Novels [Norton Critical Editions] (Paperback)
2001 - Mobydick Second Edition [Norton Critical Editions] (Paperback)
2001 - Taipi (Paperback)
2001 - Mardi (Paperback)Paperback
2000 - Herman Melville Moby Dick Billy Budd and Other Writings [Library of America College Editions] (Paperback)
2000 - Noveletas By Herman Melville Lt [Paradise and Chimmeney] (Paperback)
1999 - Herman Melville's Billy Budd Benito Cereno and Bartleby the Scrivener [Bloom's Reviews Comprehensive Research and Study Guides] (Paperback)
1999 - Moby Dick [Abridged Edition] (Paperback)
1999 - Moby Dick [Unabridged] (Paperback)Audio Cassette
1997 - The Complete Shorter Fiction [Everyman's Library Cloth] (Hardcover)
1996 - Pierre or the Ambiguities [Penguin Classics] (Paperback)
 
1996 - Typee a Peep at Polynesian Life [Penguin Classics] (Paperback)Paperback
1993 - Mobydick New Edition [Everyman's Library Paper] (Paperback)
1993 - Correspondence [Melville, Herman//Writings] (Paperback)Hardcover
1993 - Moby Dick [Wordsworth Classics] (Paperback)
1992 - Billy Budd [Tor Classics] (Paperback)
1991 - The Abc Short Story Book [Classic Books on Cassettes Collection] (Audio Cassette)
1990 - Bartleby and Benito Cereno [Dover Thrift Editions] (Paperback)
1990 - Journals [Melville, Herman//Writings] (Hardcover)Paperback
1989 - Classic Adventures [Great American Writers] (Hardcover)
1987 - Redburn Whitejacket Mobydick [The Library of America] (Hardcover)
1987 - Billy Budd Marin [French Edition] (Paperback)
1984 - Typee Omoo Mardi [The Library of America] (Hardcover)
1984 - Herman Melville's Billy Budd and Typee [Barron's Book Notes] (Paperback)
1982 - Herman Melville Typee Omoo Mardi [Library of America] (Hardcover)
1976 - The Portable Melville [Viking Portable Library] (Paperback)
1976 - El Timador (Other)
1974 - Billy Budd Sailor an Inside Narrative [The Library of Literature, 43] (Other)
1968 - Billy Budd Sailor Other Stories [English Library] (Paperback)
1967 - Mobydick an Authoritative Text [Norton Critical Edition] (Paperback)
1959 - Four American Novels [The Scarlett Letter/ Moby Dick/ The Red Badge of Courage/ The Bridge of San Luis Rey] (Hardcover)
1900 - Billy Budd Scholarly [Melville] (Paperback)
Confidence Man His Masquerade [Oxford World's Classics] (Other)Paperback
Herman Melville /08623 [World's Greatest Writers Series] (Hardcover)
Clarel [Hendricks House edition] (Hardcover)
Oeuvres Taipi Omou Mardi [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (Other)
Timoleon and Other Poems [Notable American Authors] (Other)
Encantadas or Enchanted Isles [Bcl1-Ps American Literature] (Hardcover)
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 18391860 [The Writings of Herman Melville] (Other)
Herman Melville's Mobydick [Barron's Book Notes] (Paperback)Paperback
Collected Poems of Herman Melville [Works of Herman Melville] (Hardcover)
Billy Budd with Reader's Guide [AMSCO Literature Program] (Paperback)
The Essential Melville [Essential Poets] (Paperback)
Billy Budd Student Activity Book [Now Age Illustrated V Series] (Paperback)
Moby Dick Level a/prepack of 5 [Heinle Reading Library] (Paperback)
Moby Dick Readalong [Illustrated Classics Collection 1] (Paperback)
Complete Shorter Fiction [Everyman's Library Contemporar] (Hardcover)
Taipi Omou Mardi [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade - French Edition] (Other)
Trois Contes Doubles [French Edition] (Paperback)
Moby Dick Grade 1 [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Billy Budd Marinero [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Cuentos Completos [Spanish Edition] (Hardcover)Paperback
Chaqueta Blanca [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Omu [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)
Bartleby O Escrevente [Em Portuguese do Brasil] (Hardcover)
Moby Dick 2 Edicion [Spanish Edition] (Paperback)