Herman Melville
Born
in New York City, The United States
August 01, 1819
Died
September 28, 1891
Genre
Influences
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
7259 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
460 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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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
March 2016 Short Story Poll
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 103 pages, 1937
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, 121 pages, 1922
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 98 pages, 1941
The Bet by Anton Chekhov, 64 pages, 1889
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages, 1936
To Build a Fire by Jack London, 32 pages, 1903
Xingu by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1916
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages, 1865
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 64 pages, 1853
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, 56 pages, 1956
The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo, 109 pages, 1829
The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 64 pages, 1836
A Pair of Silk Stockings and Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin, 64 pages, 1897
House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, Approx. 90 pages-Title Story Only, 1960
Everyday Use by Alice Walker, Aprrox. 16 pages-Title Story Only, 1973
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