Herman Melville
Born
in New York City, The United States
August 01, 1819
Died
September 28, 1891
Genre
Influences
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
7256 editions
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published
1851
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Bartleby the Scrivener
433 editions
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1853
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Billy Budd, Sailor
92 editions
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published
1924
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Benito Cereno
59 editions
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published
1855
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life
2150 editions
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published
1846
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Billy Budd and Other Stories
by
73 editions
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published
1782
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The Confidence-Man
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534 editions
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published
1857
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Bartleby and Benito Cereno
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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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206 editions
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1852
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Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick
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9 editions
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1851
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“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Polls
January 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Poll
1925, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 180 pages
1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages
1961, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages
1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages
1853, Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, 363 pages
1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages
1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages
1861, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages
1851, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville, 663 pages
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