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The collection is sorted chronologically by book publication. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. The dates of first publication are noted.

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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. (1846)

Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas. (1847)

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither. (1849)

Redburn: His First Voyage. (1849)

White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War. (1850)

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale. (1851)

Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. (1852)

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. (1855)

The Piazza Tales (1856): The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles, The Bell-Tower

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. (1857)

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. (1866)

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. (1876)

John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces. (1888)

Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse. (1891)

The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches (1922): The Apple-Tree Table, Jimmy Rose, I and my Chimney, The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!, The Fiddler, Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs, The Happy Failure, The ’Gees.

Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces (1924): Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The Two Temples, Daniel Orme.

Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two. (1924)

Essays: Fragments from a Writing Desk No. 1 & 2, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, Authentic Anecdotes of “Old Zack,” Mr Parkman’s Tour, Cooper’s New Novel, A Thought on Book-Binding, Hawthorne and His Mosses.

Uncollected Poems: Marquis de Grandvin at the Hostelry, Naples in the Time of Bomba, Immolated, Madam Mirror, The Wise Virgins to Madam Mirror, The New Ancient of Days, The Rusty Man, Thy Aim, Thy Aim?, The Old Shipmaster and his Crazy Barn, Camoens, Camoens in the Hospital, Montaigne and his Kitten, Falstaffs Lament over Prince Hal, Shadow at the Feast, Merry Ditty of the Sad Man, Honor, Fruit and Flower Painter, The Medallion, Time’s Long Ago!, In the Hall of Marbles, Gold in the Mountain, In Shards the Sylvan Vases Lie, In the Jovial Age of Old, A Spirit Appeared to Me, Give Me the Nerve, My Jacket Old, In the Old Farm-House, To ——, A Battle Picture, Old Age in his Ailing, Hearts-of-Gold, Pontoosuce, Epistle to Daniel Shepherd, Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh, The Admiral of the White, To Tom, Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-Temple in Arcadia, Puzzlement, The Continents, The Dust-Layers, A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855, A Reasonable Constitution, Rammon, Ditty of Aristippus, In A Nutshell, Adieu.

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Herman Melville: The Complete works Review

J. Van Sant

5.0 out of 5 stars Go to Melville Electronic Library for Billy Budd and Typee full ver
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2018

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This is fine, not perfect, like all the wonderful Delphi conglomorations. Two concerns expressed by other commenters are an expurgated Typee and a missing Billy Budd.
Both of these can be solved online at “Melville Electonic Library”. They provide Billy Budd (never finished by HM) in an authoritative version, invluding even photos of HM’s manuscript! Yes, it is not as nice to read as a .pdf or a Kindle format, but so what?
Typee is due any month now, too. There is a cool explanation of the reason for the expurgation, too.
Also, MD itself has had a bad case of versionitis over the decades, which I did not know. On this great website, all has been explained, melded, synthesized into an authoritative whole: Moby Dick is cured! May he forever threateningly temp us onward, or rather, on-word. Ha! Bad pun, awesome site.
If you want Billy Budd cheap (why not?) get the e-book version for $1.99 that says “19 complete works”. I did, but I might return it because I can read BB online and I can wait for a proper Typee. This Delphi edition (they all, I think) have the expurgated version of Typee, which loses 15% of the text describing, unflatteringly, the Christian missionaries.
So, kindred mariner-explorer types, be of good cheer. Get this, get the “19” e-book for BB, and most of all, get to that website, sign-up and dig in. (Yes, I was a sailor like HM and ventured onto a savage land (in this case, Italy) and dallied with a fair native lass. … Ah, the thrill of it all. … Then we married, had two kids and the adventure is … less adventurous than it used to be. Oy veh, who wants to be young forever? (Who doesn’t! Ciao.))

Steve Munden

4.0 out of 5 stars 5-star content, 3-star format
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2014

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5-star content: It’s Melville, what else needs to be said? Ridiculously low price. Delphi is THE source for out-of-copyright literature.

The formatting leaves much to be desired. The table of contents includes “The Novels”, “The Short Story Collections”, “The Short Stories”, etc, but if you tap on “The Novels” you don’t get a list of novels; it goes straight to the first one (Typee), with the rest of them sequentially. I thought there was no way to jump directly to a specific novel, but discovered by chance that starting from the cover there is a live table of contents. Keep that in mind and you’re golden.

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Celebrated American author Herman Melville wrote ‘Herman Melville’ pdf book and several other sea-adventure novels before turning to poetry later in his literary career. Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick pdf(1851), sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers. Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, to Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill (Maria added the “e” to the family name following her husband’s death). In the mid-1820s, young Melville fell ill to scarlet fever, and though he regained his health not long afterward, his vision was left permanently impaired by the illness.