The Life and Works of Herman Melville

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Nantucket's Tried-Out "Moby-Dick"Nantucket's Tried-Out "Moby-Dick", by Robert diCurcio, is a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Melville's greatest work, intended to assist first-time readers on this long and difficult, but fascinating, adventure. Mr. diCurcio has graciously offered the 79 core chapters and the epilogue through this web site as a helpful research tool for beginning Melville fans.What is it about Vermeer's art? Why are his images so gripping and memorable? Visit Bob's new site at: www.VermeersRiddleRevealed.com.Do you know of a Melville event that should be listed here? Send E-Mail to jmadden@melville.org. Return to the topof this pageBiographical: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)"Some zealous lovers of the general literature of the age, as well as declared devotees to his own great genius,frequently petitioned him for the materials wherewith to frame his biography. They assured him, that life of allthings was most insecure. He might feel many years in him yet; time might go lightly by him; but in anysudden and fatal sickness, how would his last hours be embittered by the thought, that he was about to departforever, leaving the world utterly unprovided with the knowledge of what were the precise texture and hue ofthe first trowsers he wore. These representations did certainly touch him in a very tender spot, not previouslyunknown to the schoolmaster." --Pierre, Book XVIIBibliography of MelvillebiographiesMelville and Nathaniel HawthorneObservations on Melville by friends,family members, and celebritiesMelville's reflections on hisworks, life, and other topicsMelville's obituary notices Return to the topof this pageThe Works"Who shall tell all the thoughts and feelings of Pierre in that desolate and shivering room, when at last the ideaobtruded, that the wiser and the profounder he should grow, the more and the more he lessened the chances forbread; that could he now hurl his deep book out of the window, and fall to on some shallow nothing of a novel,composable in a month at the longest, then could he reasonably hope for both appreciation and cash. But thedevouring profundities, now opened up in him, consume all his vigor; would he, he could not now beentertainingly and profitably shallow in some pellucid and merry romance."--Pierre, Book XXIIHerman MelvilleOnlineLinks to completeelectronic texts of Melville's works (at present only themore popular novels and several short pieces are available). Manythanks to Heyward Ehrlich of Rutgers University for his generousassistance with this section.Publishing History,Excerpts, Contemporary ReviewsTypee (1846)Omoo (1847)Mardi (1849)Redburn (1849)White-Jacket (1850)Moby-Dick (1851)Pierre (1852)Israel Potter (1855)Piazza Tales (1856)The Confidence-Man (1857)Battle Pieces (1866)Clarel (1876)John Marr and Other Sailors (1888)Timoleon (1891)Billy Budd (posthumous,1924)Uncollected Prose (1839-1856)CriticismContemporary estimates of Melvilleand his worksMelville criticism and research online Bibliography of Melville criticism: general and work-specificOther MelvilleanaMelville's letters to Nathaniel HawthorneDedications of Melville's worksMelville's very negative review of The Romance ofYachtingMelville's literary earnings Return to the topof this pageThe Gam: Other Melville-Related Sites on the Web"If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain inEngland; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannotwell avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting downfor a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens andSalisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth -- off loneFanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstancesthese ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact....For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialitiesarising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils." --Moby-Dick, Chapter 53(The Gam)Melville's GeographyBerkshire, Pittsfield, and Mount GreylockCapeCod and NantucketFairhaven and New BedfordLiverpoolFrenchPolynesia, The Marquesas,and TahitiPacific Islands and HawaiiMuseumsHerman Melville'sArrowheadBerkshire Athenaeum (featuring the Melville Memorial Room)Melville in the ArtsOf the Monstrous Pictures ofWhales (an illustrated tour of Chapter 55 of Moby-Dick)Melville in Film(from the Internet Movie Database)Melville and the Arts (a course atNorthern Kentucky University) Return to the topof this pagePostscript: Of Related Interest"...Resolve as one may to keep to the main road, some bypaths have an enticement notreadily to be withstood." --Billy Budd, Chapter 4WhalesSea World BaleenWhales InformationBookletTirpitz Whaling Information on theWWWWhale AdoptionProjectWhaleConservation InstituteWhaleWatching WebWhalesin LiteratureThe Age of Sail"Another Merchant MarinePage"MarkRosenstein's Sailing PageMystic Seaport MuseumOther Nineteenth-Century American GiantsSamuelClemens (Mark Twain)Emily DickinsonRalph Waldo EmersonNathaniel HawthorneHenry JamesHenry Wadsworth LongfellowEdgarAllan PoeHenry David ThoreauOther Great Literary SitesAmerican Literary ClassicsAmericanLiterature (Keele University)Author,Author!Book Lovers: FineBooks and LiteratureBooks in Chainsdads.com Original tales of 1990s dadhood, from myfine countryman, Fencl of ClevelandDiscovery Channel SchoolJohn Hewitt's Writing ResourceCenterInternet UniversityCormac McCarthy Web Site Return to the topof this pageCredits"For though the naked soul of man doth assuredly contain one latent element of intellectual productiveness; yetnever was there a child born solely from one parent; the visible world of experience being that procreative thingwhich impregnates the muses; self-reciprocally efficient hermaphrodites being but a fable." --Pierre,Book XVIIISources and illustrations used in thecreation of this Web SiteAcknowledgements to thosewho have contributed to improve the quality of these pages Return to the topof this page"For small erections may be finished by their first architects;grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity."--Moby-Dick, Chapter 32 (Cetology)Can youprovide additional information on Melville, his works, oranything else that belongs here? Let us know! Your contributions,comments, queries, and suggestions are welcomed by jmadden@melville.org.The Life and Works of Herman Melville is brought to youby Multiverse, Cleveland's premier internet serviceprovider.Lastrevised July 25, 2000

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