Herman Melville

Source: "Herman Melville Bibliography." Author Wars, https://authorwars.com/authors/herman-melville.html".

Overview:

Legal Name: Melville, Herman
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Date of Birth: August 1, 1819
Date of Death: September 28, 1891

Notes:

Worked on numerous sailing vessels from 1839 to 1847. Bought a farm next to %%A,Nathaniel Hawthorne%% in Pittsfield MA, with whom he formed a friendship. Melville was not well-known during his lifetime, and was never able to earn income from his writings. His most secure position was as a customs inspector in New York City.

Titles:

Chapter Books

Unknown. Bartleby, o Escrivão

Collections

Essays

Unknown. Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

Novels

Poems

Unknown. The Apparition

Reviews

Short Fiction

Genres/Themes:

Horror: 100 Best Books (1 book)
horror (1 book)
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1 book)
watchmaker (1 book)
automata (1 book)
absurdist (1 book)
Wall St. (1 book)
clerk (1 book)
first person point of view (1 book)
isolation (1 book)
dead letter office (1 book)
passivity (1 book)
resistance (1 book)
fantasy (1 book)
spiritualism (1 book)
ghosts (1 book)
Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1 book)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (1 book)