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The Encantadas and Other Stories Pdf Summary Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819OCo91) found critical and popular success …

Clarel Pdf Summary Melville’s long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of …

Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems Pdf Summary Poems from “Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems (1866).” Herman Melville, best known as the author …

Great Short Works of Herman Melville Pdf Summary Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are …

The Piazza Tales Pdf Summary Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably — from “The Encantadas” (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” …

Israel Potter Pdf Summary Herman Melville’s “Israel Potter” is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution — a man who lived a life …

Mardi and a Voyage Thither Pdf Summary Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville’s first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, …

Benito Cereno Pdf Summary On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. …

White Jacket or, the World in a Man-of-War Pdf Summary “White Jacket” written by Herman Melville (best known for his classic whaling novel) was first published in 1850 and is …

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities Pdf Summary Initially dismissed as “a dead failure” and “a bad book,” and declined by Melville’s British publisher, Pierre has since struck critics as modern in …