A whaling ship stops at a remote Polynesian island. The crew aboard is exhausted after a grueling six-month voyage in which they suffered ill-treatment and drudgery. Two men...

Typee is Herman Melvilles first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It...

Call me Ishmael is one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. With these words, opens one of the strangest and most gripping stories ever written about the sea...

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. Capt. Delano boards the...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (18191891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and...

Mardi is Melvilles first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates mans beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham?...

Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Read by Doug Brown.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day...

Herman Melville (New York, 1º agosto 1819 – New York, 28 settembre 1891) è stato uno scrittore, poeta e critico letterario statunitense, autore nel 1851 del...