Herman Melville
Herman Melville wrote one of the greatest novels in the English language with Moby-Dick, a philosophical epic about obsession and the sea. Largely unappreciated in his lifetime, he was rediscovered in the twentieth century as a towering figure of American literature.
Works
- Moby-DickEpic novel of a sea captain's obsessive hunt for the white whale Moby Dick
- Billy BuddNovella about a handsome sailor executed aboard a warship during wartime
- TypeeAdventure novel chronicling a sailor's escape and life among Pacific island natives
- Bartleby the ScrivenerShort story of a Wall Street copyist who responds to all requests with passive resistance
- The Confidence-ManNovel about con artists and moral duplicity aboard a Mississippi riverboat