This volume collects the complete writings of Herman Melville (1819–1891,
wikipedia):
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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas.
(1846)
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas.
(1847)
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither.
(1849)
Redburn: His First Voyage.
(1849)
White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War.
(1850)
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale.
(1851)
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.
(1852)
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile.
(1855)
The Piazza Tales (1856): The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles, The Bell-Tower
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.
(1857)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
(1866)
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
(1876)
John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces.
(1888)
Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse.
(1891)
The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches
(1922): The Apple-Tree Table, Jimmy Rose, I and my Chimney, The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!, The Fiddler, Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs, The Happy Failure, The ’Gees.
Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces
(1924): Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The Two Temples, Daniel Orme.
Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two.
(1924)
Essays: Fragments from a Writing Desk No. 1 & 2, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, Authentic Anecdotes of “Old Zack,” Mr Parkman’s Tour, Cooper’s New Novel, A Thought on Book-Binding, Hawthorne and His Mosses.
Uncollected Poems: Marquis de Grandvin at the Hostelry, Naples in the Time of Bomba, Immolated, Madam Mirror, The Wise Virgins to Madam Mirror, The New Ancient of Days, The Rusty Man, Thy Aim, Thy Aim?, The Old Shipmaster and his Crazy Barn, Camoens, Camoens in the Hospital, Montaigne and his Kitten, Falstaffs Lament over Prince Hal, Shadow at the Feast, Merry Ditty of the Sad Man, Honor, Fruit and Flower Painter, The Medallion, Time’s Long Ago!, In the Hall of Marbles, Gold in the Mountain, In Shards the Sylvan Vases Lie, In the Jovial Age of Old, A Spirit Appeared to Me, Give Me the Nerve, My Jacket Old, In the Old Farm-House, To ——, A Battle Picture, Old Age in his Ailing, Hearts-of-Gold, Pontoosuce, Epistle to Daniel Shepherd, Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh, The Admiral of the White, To Tom, Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-Temple in Arcadia, Puzzlement, The Continents, The Dust-Layers, A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855, A Reasonable Constitution, Rammon, Ditty of Aristippus, In A Nutshell, Adieu.
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The texts are sourced from Gutenberg, mostly. I’ve used the unexpurgated versions of
Moby Dick and
Typee and the 1962 text of
Billy Budd, Sailor.
The formatting, italics, and diacritics have been checked and corrected by comparing the texts with the paper editions. Quotes are curly, footnotes are active, and fonts are embedded.
The collection is sorted chronologically by book publication. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. The dates of first publication are noted.
But, er, complete it is not.
(It is now. See update v.2.0.)
I haven’t included the poetry yet, as with its less than stellar reputation I wasn’t sure if it is worth the effort. I don’t want to lose any more sleep about it, so I decided that I’d like you to decide about its inclusion. Therefore I have set up a poll
here.
Best regards,
pynch.
Update | v.1.1 | 21 Jul 2013
Fixed a file that was too big for Sony readers. Uploaded Version 1.1.
Update | v.2.0 | 27 Jul 2013
Added five volumes of poetry, a bunch of uncollected poems, and an alphabetical index of the poems. Uploaded Version 2.0.
Update | v.2.1 | 14 Dec 2014
Proofed
The Piazza Tales and
The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches against the first editions and “Billy Budd, Sailor” against the 1962 University of Chicago Press edition (Harrison Hayford and Merton M Sealts, Jr., eds.). About 700 mistakes and variants were corrected.
Update | v.2.2 | 19 Mar 2016
Proofed
Moby-Dick against the 2002 paperback of the Norton Critical Edition, 2nd edition 1988 (Hershel Parker & Harrison Hayford, eds.). About 1100 mistakes and variants were corrected.
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