| Description |
746 pages 18 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking portable library [58] |
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Viking portable library ; 58.
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| Contents |
Typee -- Billy Budd -- To Gansevoort Melville -- To Evert Duyckinck -- To John Murray -- Dreams / Mardi and a voyage thither -- They hearken unto a voice from the gods / Mardi and a voyage thither -- Sailing on / Mardi and a voyage thither -- Some pleasant, shady talk in the groves / Mardi and a voyage thither -- To Richard Bentley -- To Lemuel Shaw -- excerpt from Journal of a voyage from New York to London, 1849 -- To Nathaniel Parker Willis -- To Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- Hawthorne and his mosses -- To Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The sermon / Moby Dick, or, the whale -- To Sarah Morewood -- To Sophia Hawthorne -- Bartleby -- Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow / The Encantadas, or enchanted isles -- Israel enters the presence of Doctor Franklin / The Encantadas, or enchanted isles -- Paul Jones in a reverie / The Encantadas, or enchanted isles -- Samson among the Philistines / The Encantadas, or enchanted isles -- Marginalia (Don Quixote) -- A mute goes aboard a boat on the Mississippi / The confidence-man: his masquerade -- Showing that many men have many minds / The confidence-man: his masquerade -- ["Quite an original"] / The confidence-man: his masquerade -- excerpt from Journal up the straits -- The South Seas -- To Allan Melville -- Journal on the clipper ship Meteor, 1860 -- Marginalia (The New Testament) -- A reasonable constitution -- Monody -- The lake -- To Elizabeth Shaw Melville -- Marginalia (Emerson, deStaël) -- To Thomas Melville -- To Samuel Shaw -- To Henry Sanford Gansevoort -- Misgivings / Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- A Utilitarian view of the Monitor's flight / Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- Commemorative of a naval victory / Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- Marginalia (Arnold) -- To Maria Gansevoort Melville -- To Abraham Lansing -- A sketch / Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land -- Dirge / Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land -- Epilogue / Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land -- To John C. Hoadley -- To Ellen Marett Gifford -- To Charles James Billson -- John Marr / John Marr and other sailors, with some sea-pieces -- Far off-shore / John Marr and other sailors, with some sea-pieces -- The Berg / John Marr and other sailors, with some sea-pieces -- To Archibald MacMechan -- Billy Budd, Foretopman -- Camoens -- Suggested by the ruins of a mountain-temple in Arcadia -- The New Rosicrucians -- Art. |
| Summary |
Presents stories, poems, journal writings, and letters together with Typee, Billy Budd, and portions of four of Melville's novels. Bibliog. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century.
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Short stories, American.
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Literature -- American.
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American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
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Short stories, American. (OCoLC)fst01117064
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Portable Melville. New York : Viking Press, 1952 (OCoLC)610136137 |
| ISBN |
0517610647 |
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9780517610640 |
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0670467103 |
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9780670467105 |
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