
Herman Melville
1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891
2,426 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. (Source.)
Also published as: H. Melville
Most-read books

Moby Dick
3.9 · 1851 · 1.8K want to read

Bartleby, the Scrivener
4 · 1966 · 68 want to read

The Confidence Man
3.4 · 1857 · 70 want to read

Billy Budd
2.8 · 1900 · 45 want to read
![Cover of The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
4 · 1952 · 44 want to read

The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
2010 · 42 want to read

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
1999 · 35 want to read

Moby Dick
2016 · 31 want to read

Typee
3.7 · 1840 · 23 want to read

Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
2003 · 24 want to read

Benito Cereno
4 · 1926 · 16 want to read

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
2015 · 22 want to read

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
1989 · 20 want to read

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
5 · 2006 · 18 want to read

Moby Dick
3 · 1997 · 19 want to read

The Short Story
4 · 1987 · 16 want to read

Moby Dick
4 · 1984 · 16 want to read

The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
4.3 · 1973 · 14 want to read

White-Jacket
3 · 1850 · 14 want to read

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
5 · 2009 · 13 want to read

The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
4 · 2002 · 13 want to read

The experience of literature
4 · 1967 · 10 want to read

Great American Short Stories
2002 · 13 want to read
![Cover of Great American Short Stories [34 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9378337-M.jpg)
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
1977 · 14 want to read