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Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Selected Bibliography on Moby-Dick Reading Questions on Moby-Dick Discussion materials on the genres of Moby-Dick Selected Bibliography on Billy Budd Selected Bibliography on "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Reading and Discussion Questions on "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Contemporary views of Melville Try the Moby-Dick crossword puzzle.    Melville Home Page. $ Herman Melville's Typee. This site is an online "fluid text" edition approved by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions.It is not free (as is indicated by the $), but a free trial is available, and information about the writing of Typee can be accessed without logging in. The Melville Society site includes membership information, calls for papers, and, for members only, access to Melville Society Extracts. (Clicking on the links to these leads to a "no access" message.) PowerMobyDick.com. This online edition includes contextually relevant definitions and a glossary; the notes (definitions) can be turned off, too. "The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick" from Smithsonian Magazine. Moby-Dick. This online text version at Princeton has a search feature so that readers can find the occurrences of a particular word in the text. Melville Marginalia Online. From the site: "By combining the evidence of books owned and borrowed within a single updateable resource, the project's "Online Catalog of Books and Documents Owned, Borrowed and Consulted by Herman Melville" provides a fully searchable (and forever current) listing of the nearly 800 known titles connected to Melville and his immediate family members." The search feature is at http://www.boisestate.edu/melville/PoliciesFrameset.html. Prof. Ann Woodlief  of VCU has prepared a hypertext study version of "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Christopher Benfey's article on Melville and Manjiro Nakahama is available (with illustrations) inCommon-place. MIT Open Courseware site paper topics on Moby-Dick Arrowhead, the home of Herman Melville Hawthorne and Melville The whaler Essex and Moby-Dick

Selected Works Available Online "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (HTML at bartleby.com) "Bartleby, the Scrivener" site with links to published essays. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (Putnam's, November 1853) (Page images at MOA) "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (continued; Putnam's, December 1853) (Page images at MOA) Benito Cereno (HTML at esp.org) Billy Budd, An Inside Narrative The Confidence-Man (HTML at Virginia) Moby-Dick (1851) HTML at Virginia "The Town-Ho's Story," Harper's, (October 1851) (Chapter 54 of Moby-Dick) (Page images at MOA)  The Piazza Tales (HTML at esp.org) Israel Potter (Project Gutenberg) Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life "Hawthorne and His Mosses "(New York Literary World, August 17 and 24, 1850) Poems "Chattanooga"Harper's, June 1866 THe Cumberland," Harper's March 1866 "Gettysburg,"Harper's, July 1866 "The March to the Sea," Harper's (February 1866) "Philip,"Harper's, April 1866 Poems in HTML format Poems from John Marr and Timoleon (The Century, May 1892), with an introductory note on Melville by Arthur Stedman (Page images at MOA)  "Art" "Monody" "The Night March" "The Weaver" "Lamia's Song" Some Contemporary Views on Melville (Page images at MOA; go to the Melville Home Page for more sources) "Our Young Authors: Melville" (Putnam's, February 1853) ""Are we a Good-Looking People?" (Putnam's, March 1853): "Our poets and authors, Cooper and Irving and Longfellow, Melville and Lovell [sic], are handsome and superior-looking men." "Melville's Israel Potter" (Putnam's, May 1855) "Our Authors and Authorship: Melville and Curtis" (Putnam's, April 1857) "Our Window" [letter from "Toby" of Typee] Comments to D. Campbell.