Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

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About this ebook

Herman Melville is a giant of American literature, whose novels are hailed as literary masterpieces. This eBook offers readers the complete works for the first time in digital print, as well as an array of bonus features.


Features:

* illustrated with many images relating to Melville’s life and works

* annotated with concise introductions to the novels and other works

* ALL the novels (except BILLY BUDD), with separate contents tables

* MOBY-DICK and other works are presented with their original illustrations

* images of how the novels first appeared, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts

* two short story collections

* the complete poetry collections

* the scarce poetry collection WEEDS AND WILDINGS, which Melville wrote for his wife - first time in digital print

* uncollected poetry section, with rare works

* separate CHRONOLOGICAL and ALPHABETICAL contents tables for the poetry – find that special poem easily!

* includes Melville's complete essays, available nowhere else

* bonus collection of letters by Melville - explore the writer's personal correspondence

* boasts a special criticism section, with essays by writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf examining Melville’s contribution to literature

* features Raymond Weaver's seminal biography on Melville, which sparked the great revival in the author

* scholarly ordering of texts in chronological order and literary genres, allowing easy navigation around Melville’s immense oeuvre


CONTENTS:


The Novels

Typee

Omoo

Mardi

Redburn

White-Jacket

Moby-Dick

Pierre

Israel Potter

The Confidence-Man

Billy Budd, Sailor


The Short Story Collections

The Piazza Tales

The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches

Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces


The Short Stories

List of the Short Stories


The Poetry Collections

Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

John Marr and Other Sailors

Timoleon and Other Ventures

Weeds and Wildings, with a Rose or Two

Uncollected Poems


The Poems

List of Poems in Chronological Order

List of Poems in Alphabetical Order


The Essays

Fragments from a Writing Desk

Etchings of a Whaling Cruise Review

Authentic Anecdotes of ‘Old Zack’

Mr Parkman’s Tour

Cooper’s New Novel

A Thought on Book-Binding

Hawthorne and His Mosses


The Letters

Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville by Meade Minnigerode


The Criticism

The Best Sea-Story Ever Written by Archibald Macmechan

Herman Melville’s Moby Dick by D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville’s Typee and Omoo by D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville by Virginia Woolf


The Biography

Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic by Raymond Weaver

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