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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-1891)

teacher, sailor, lecturer, poet, essayist, literary critic, art collector

  • The Academy of Management Annals, Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School

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Billy Budd
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Billy Budd and Other Tales
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Israel Potter
Selected Tales and Poems
The Portable Melville
Billy Budd and other stories
Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories
Great Short Works of Herman Melville
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Billy Budd / Red Badge of Courage / Scarlet Letter
Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Encantadas)
Herman Melville Classic Stories (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Bell Tower / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Encantadas / Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids / Piazza)
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
Novellas (Benito Cereno / Billy Budd)
Works (Billy Budd / Piazza Tales)
Forms of the Novella
Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd)
The Complete Shorter Fiction
Four Great American Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Billy Budd / Daisy Miller / Scarlet Letter)
Selected Writings of Herman Melville
Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
Five Tales (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / I and My Chimney / Lightning-Rod Man)
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Billy Budd and other prose pieces
Moby Dick
Works (Billy Budd / Confidence-Man / Israel Potter / Piazza Tales / Pierre, Or, the Ambiguities / Uncollected Prose)
Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and other writings
Works (Billy Budd / Confidence-Man / Moby Dick / Piazza Tales)
Billy Budd, Sailor with Related Readings
Works (Billy Budd / Story of Toby / Typee)
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings
Works (Billy Budd / Moby Dick)
Billy Budd / Typee
Billy Budd & Other Stories
Novellas (Billy Budd / Encantadas)
The Works of Herman Melville (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd / Moby Dick / Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids)
Moby Dick
White-Jacket
Moby Dick in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, and Character Index)(
White Jacket or the World in A Man of War
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Typee
Piazza Tales
The Confidence Man
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Pierre, or the Ambiguities
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Omoo
The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Redburn
Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Benito Cereno)
Poems of Herman Melville
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Great American Short Stories
The United States in Literature
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Mardi and a voyage thither
The experience of literature
World's Great Adventure Stories
Herman Melville
Words of Ages
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
The Apple-Tree Table
Selected Poems of Herman Melville
The Shape of Fiction. Stories for Comparaison
Great American Short Stories
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Fourth Edition
Literature -- second edition
Fictions--Second Edition
Moby Dick
Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway
Perrine's Story and Structure--Twelfth Edition
Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Benito Cereno
The Situation of the Story
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century
Great American Short Stories
Roger Caras' Treasury of Great Fishing Stories
American 24-Karat Gold
Moby Dick
Fiction 100
Great American Short Stories [48 stories]
Clarel
Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories
The Short Story
Future perfect
Arthur Gordon Pym, Benito Cereno, and related writings
The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Great American Short Stories
The Writings of Herman Melville
Perrine's Story and Structure--Tenth Edition
America's Literature
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
Journal up the Straits
The American Short Story [59 stories]
The shapes of fiction
American Short Stories
The Frankenstein Omnibus
Elements of Literature - Third Canadian Edition
Classic American Short Stories
Short Stories
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition
The Short Story
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Works (Mardi / Omoo / Typee)
John Marr and Other Poems
Billy Budd, Sailor
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
The variety of fiction
Modes of fiction
The Happy Failure
Introduction to the novel
Mardi and a Voyage Thither. 1/2
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860
Das Frühlingslesebuch
Moby Dick
Adventures at Sea
Selected Poems Of Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
Works (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Lightning-Rod Man)
On the Slain Collegians
Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Bell-Tower / Lightning-Rod Man)
The Literature of the American Renaissance
Some personal letters of Herman Melville and a bibliography
Herman Melville
Three American Poets
John Marr and other sailors, with some sea-pieces
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories
Correspondence (The Writings of Herman Melville)
Mardi and A Voyage Thither. 2/2
Family correspondence of Herman Melville, 1830-1904, in the Gansevoort-Lansing collection
Moby Dick
Novels (Moby Dick / Redburn / White-Jacket)
Moby Dick
Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
Billy Budd
Melville's poetry
Works
Moby Dick
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & The Scarlet Letter & Uncle Tom's Cabin & Benito Cereno & Clotel
Moby Dick
The Encantadas
Collected Poems
Moby Dick
Novels (Bartleby, the Scrivener / Bell-Tower / Encantadas)
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
The Works of Herman Melville
One hundred cottage stories for boys
American short stories (2)
Journals
Classic American Short Stories
Moby Dick Mis Primeros Clasicos
The letters of Herman Melville
The Phoenix Pick Anthology of Classic Science Fiction Stories
American 19th Century Literature
Great Conversations 2
Trio - Fourth Edition
Herman Melville - Complete Poems
Librivox Short Story Collection 086
Old New England
Taipi
Moby Dick
Moby Dick / The Life of Samuel Johnson / The Social Contract / The Odyssey / Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves / Christopher Columbus' Letter Reporting his First Impressions of America / Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
At the hostelry ; and, Naples in the time of Bomba
Moby Dick
Moby Dick (adaptation)
Great American Short Stories Volume III
Representative Selections
Billy Budd
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Heavy Weather
Moby Dick
Romances of Herman Melville (Israel Potter / Mardi and a Voyage Thither / Moby Dick / Omoo / Redburn / Typee / White-Jacket)
Herman Melville
Journal of a visit to Europe and the Levant
Treasury of Animal Stories
The One that got away
Melville's marginalia
Works (Benito Cereno / Lightning Rod Man / Piazza Tales)
Moby Dick. 2/2
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Catskill eagle
The Complete Stories of Herman Melville
El fin de la inocencia
Cetology
Billy Budd and Other Tales
I And My Chimney
Collected Works of Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Best of Herman Melville (Israel Potter / Moby Dick / Omoo / Typee)
Moby Dick. 1/2
American Story
Billy Budd, Sailor
Classic Adventure (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / The Call of the Wild / The Gold Bug / Moby Dick (an extract))
Bartleby, el escribiente
Works (Omoo / Typee)
Dominoes : Starter
Billy Budd and Moby Dick
Moby Dick
The essential Melville
The Water of the Wondrous Isles By
My own cottage stories for summer hours
Moby Dick
The gay Herman Melville reader
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
Poems
Great American Short Novels
33 poèmes
Moby Dick - Grade 1
Typee
Journal of a visit to London and the Continent, 1849-1850
A Treasury of Civil War Stories
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & Scarlet Letter & Benito Cereno
Penguin Readers Level 7
Selected Poems
The Lightning-Rod Man
Herman Melville. the complete works including novels, short stories, letters, criticism, a biography, and an extensive bibliography.
Piazza Tales
The Divine Magnet
Pierre (or, the Ambiguities)
Confidence-Man
Typee
Clarel. 2/2
Poèmes
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & Uncle Tom's Cabin & Benito Cereno
Billy Budd, Sailor
Bartleby y Otros Cuentos / Bartleby and Other Stories
American Classics For Children Collection I
Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent by Herman Melville, 1849-1850
Israel Potter
Clarel. 1/2
Dormant
Published poems
Maskeraden oder Vertrauen gegen Vertrauen
White-Jacket
Benito Cereno
The Shape of Fiction. Second Editon
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
Old New York
The encantadas and other stories
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems
Piazza Tales
Selected Poems
Herman Melville's Moby Dick
The writings
Great Classic Love Stories
Clarel. 4/4
Moby Dick
Typee
Pierre
Typee Annotated
Moby Dick; or, The Whale - Great Books Of The Western World, Volume 48
Redburn : His First Voyage
Meistererzählungen
Herman Melville - Israel Potter
White Jacket
El estafador y sus disfraces
Benito Cereno
Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales
The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville - Typee
Moby Dick Annotated
Feliz Fracaso, El - Y Otros Relatos
Typee
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville Classic Illustrated Edition
Moby Dick Illustrated Edition
Piazza Tales (AmazonClassics Edition)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (Illustrated)
Hvalurinn
El campanario / La galería
Classics of American Literature
Israel Potter Vol. 8
Typee
Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition 2e & Benito Cereno
Battle-pieces and Aspects of War
Derniers poèmes
Omoo
Selected Poems of Herman Melville
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & Benito Cereno & Charlotte Temple
Timoleon, etc.
Taipi
Timoleon
The Apple-Tree Table
Typee Herman Melville (Illustrated)
Short stories of Herman Melville
Piazza Tales : (5*8)
Typee (adaptation)
Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale
Mardi and a Voyage Thither
Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile
Typee
Works (Moby Dick / Typee)
Redburn Illustrated
Typee Illustrated
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
Moby Dick or the Whale
White-Jacket
Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor
Redburn. His First Voyage
Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile, by
Typee & Omoo
Confidence-Man
Typee; A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas, with Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the ... And a Sequel, the Story of Toby; Volume 1
Moby Dick
Redburn, His First Voyage
Omoo. Adventures In The South Seas
Typee Annotated
Typee
El timador
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
Bartleby, der Angestellte
White Jacket
Moby Dick by Herman Melville Illustrated Novel
Redburn. His First Voyage. by
The Portable Melville
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & Benito Cereno
Moby Dick Novel
Typee : a Romance of the South Seas
Moby Dick
Benito Cereno/Billy Budd, marinero
Bartleby, the Scrivener : a Story of Wall-Street
John Marr and Other Sailors
Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Mardi and a Voyage Thither Vol. I
Moby Dick (Fully Illustrated Edition)
Mardi
Billy Budd
Bartleby, the Scrivener Illustrated
Moby Dick
Timoleon and Other Poems
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick Illustrated
Melville on Piranesi
White Jacket or the World on a Man-Of-War
Moby Dick
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V2 & Benito Cereno
Moby Dick
I Would Prefer Not To
White Jacket
Moby-Dick or the WHALE (Annotated)
Classic Adventure
Mardi, and a Voyage Thither; Volume 2
Typee Illustrated
Six Great Modern Short Novels - the Dead - Billy Bud - Noon Wine - Overcoat - Pilgrim Hawk - Bear
Moby Dick; or, the Whale with Illustrated Large Print
Confidence-Man : His Masquerade
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
Benito Cereno
Mardi
Israel Potter
Mardi : and a voyage thither . By : Herman Melville, dedicated By : Allan Melville
Taipi
Moby Dick
An anthology
Redburn
Moby-Dick or Wale by Herman Melville Fully Illustrated Edition
Billy Budd Student Activity Book
Works (Moby Dick / Typee / White-Jacket)
Bartleby and Benito Cereno
Israel Potter
Hunilla
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Yazici Bartleby
Bedford Anthology of American Literature V1 & Benito Cereno
Typee. 1/2
Whale
D'où viens-tu Hawthorne ? Hawthorne et ses mousses
Three Short Novels
Bedford Anthology of American Literature, 2e V1 & Benito Cereno
Billy Budd
Moby Dick (adaptation)
Billy Budd
Omoo
Moby Dick (Collins Classics)
Six Great Modern Short Novels (Laurel Edition, 7996)
Moby Dick or, The Whale
Redburn by Herman Melville Classic Illustrated Edition
Moby Dick - Kid Classics
Moby-Dick; or the Whale. by Herman Melville
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Moby-Dick Annotated
Typee. A Romance of the South Sea
Moby-Dick Illustrated
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville(Annotated)
Redburn. His First Voyage
Redburn Illustrated
Family correspondence of Herman Melville, 1830-1904
Journal of a visit to Europe and the Levant, October 11, 1856-May 6, 1857
Typee Illustrated
Typee Illustrated
Bartleby the Scrivener Illustrated
Katip Bartleby
Gesammelte Werke : Romane und Abenteuergeschichten : Moby Dick + Bartleby + Taipi + Omoo
Billy Budd, Sailor
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Omoo
クジラ
Bartleby le scribe ; Billy Budd, marin ; et autres romans
Omoo
Redburn-Classic Original Edition;illustrated
Bartleby, the Scrivener Annotated
Typee; a Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas, With Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the ... and a Sequel, The Story of Toby; Volume 1
Moby Dick Graphic Novel
White-Jacket
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War
Israel Potter
Mardi.
Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville. Selected Poems
Moby Dick Illustrated Edition
Great short works of Herman Melville
Father Mapple, his sermon
Melville's South Seas
Billy Budd, and other tales
A Perfect Prodigy
Omoo
Moby Dick
Romances of Herman Melville
Taipi
Pierre; or, The ambiguities
John Marr
Billy Budd and other prose pieces
Pierre
Herman Melville's Authentic anecdotes of Old Zack
Mobi Diḳ
Piazza tales
Moby-Dick, or, The whale
The piazza
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Billy Budd, gabier de misaine
Mardi and a voyage thither
Redburn ; Vareuse-blanche
Taipi
The whale
Pierre
The whiteness
Omoo
Melville Six Short Novels
Moby Dick
A thought on book-binding
Redburn
Moby Dick, czyli, Biały wieloryb
Moby Dick, o, La balena
Rock Rodondo
Mardi and a voyage thither
Journal of a cruise to the Pacific Ocean, 1842-1844, in the frigate United States
On the slain collegians
Herman Melville on CD-ROM
Taipi
Mobi Dik
Belyĭ bushlat
Noveletas by Herman Melville
Moby Dick (Planeta)
Typee
Omoo
Typee, or, A narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life
Le campanile
Clarel
Lettere a Hawthorne
The works of Herman Melville
The confidence-man
Typee
Bartleby, the scrivener
The confidence man
D.S.I.R. and the technical institutions
Cuentos Completos
Selected poems
The works of Herman Melville
The portent
Redburn, Roman
Bartleby, the scrivener
Benito Cereno
Mardi
Israel Potter
Moby Dick filet
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Selected poems
Journal of a visit to London and the Continent by Herman Melville, 1849-1850
The apple-tree table
Benito Cereno
Moby Dick; or, The whale
Shirokujira
Shorter novels of Herman Melville
L' Homme Paratonnerre
Collected poems of Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or, The whale
Excerpts from Moby Dick
To kampanario
Mardi and a voyage thither
Kate Messner
Kate Messner (born 1969)

lecturer, teacher, reporter

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Rolling Thunder
Over and under the snow
Marty McGuire
Eye of the storm
Hide and seek
Ranger in Time
All The Answers
Chirp
Seamonster's first day
Spitfire
Wake Up Missing
Ranger in time
Danger in Ancient Rome
The brilliant fall of Gianna Z
Ranger in Time
The brilliant deep
Champlain and the Silent One
Insect superpowers
Sea Monster and the bossy fish
Ranger in Time
The exact location of home
Marty McGuire digs worms!
Arriba en el huerto y abajo en la tierra
History Smashers
Hurricane Katrina Rescue (Ranger in Time #8)
Up in the garden and down in the dirt
Long Road to Freedom
Manhunt
D-Day
How to read a story
Tree of wonder
Escape from the Twin Towers
The star-spangled setup
The seventh wish
Over and under the pond
Real revision
Fergus and Zeke at the Science Fair
Fergus and Zeke
Tracking pythons
Dr. Fauci
The next president
History Smashers
Marty McGuire Has Too Many Pets!
Forensics
59 reasons to write
Seguimiento de Las Tortugas
History Smashers
Next President
Manhunt
Fergus and Zeke for President
Solve This
Disaster on the Titanic
Fergus and Zeke and the Field Day Challenge
Sloth Wasn't Sleepy
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Over and Under the Snow
Pearl Harbor
Danger in Ancient Rome
Marty Maravilla y la Fuga de Lombrices
Only the Best
Scariest Kitten in the World
Over and under the Rainforest
Night of Soldiers and Spies
Over and under the canyon
Once upon a Book
Breakout
Sugar and ice
Wake up Missing
Tree of Wonder
Titanic
How to Write a Story
Fergus and Zeke and the 100th Day of School
Kitap Okuma Kilavuzum
Capture the Flag
Long Road to Freedom
Chirp
How to Read a Story
Attack on Pearl Harbor (Ranger in Time #12)
Escape from the Great Earthquake
Journey Through Ash and Smoke
Underground Railroad
Hide and Seek
59 Reasons to Write
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Sugar and Ice
Kids in Mrs Z's Class 1&2 B5G1
Over and under the Wetland
Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
Insect Superpowers
Christopher Columbus and the Taino People
Plagues and Pandemics
Next Scientist
Race to the South Pole
Hurricane Katrina Rescue
Marty McGuire Has Too Many Pets!
Pearl Harbor
Race to the South Pole
Sea Monster's First Day
Dr. Fauci
Eye of the Storm
Where the Sea Meets the Shore
Fergus and Zeke at the Science Fair
Over and under the Waves
Fergus and Zeke
Sea Monster and the Bossy Fish
Escape from the Twin Towers
American Revolution
Night of Soldiers and Spies
Rescue on the Oregon Trail
Escape from the Twin Towers
Capture the Flag
Fergus and Zeke for President
D-Day
Emma Mckenna, Full Out (the Kids in Mrs. Z's Class #1)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Over and under the Pond
Night of Soldiers and Spies
Seventh Wish
Over and under the Rainforest
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
Fergus and Zeke and the Field Day Challenge
Emma Mckenna, Full Out
Breakout
Real Revision
Long Road to Freedom
Mayflower
Journey Through Ash and Smoke
Over and under the Canyon
How to Write a Story : (Read-Aloud Book, Learn to Read and Write)
Escape from the Twin Towers (Ranger in Time #11)
Manhunt
Fergus and Zeke and the Field Day Challenge
How to Write a Story
Rescue on the Oregon Trail
Exact Location of Home
Exact Location of Home
Women's Right to Vote
Disaster on the Titanic
Fergus and Zeke and the 100th Day of School
Danger in Ancient Rome
D-Day
Escape from the Great Earthquake
Tracking Pythons
Over and under the Pond
Over and under the Canyon
Mayflower
Hide and Seek
Hurricane Katrina Rescue
All the Answers
Over and under the Waves
Disaster on the Titanic
Breakout
Scariest Kitten in the World