Works by
Herman Melville
(Writer)
[August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891]

Books

Fiction

• Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative (1924)

• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857)

• Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1856)

• Isle of the Cross (1853)

• Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)

• Moby-Dick, or The Whale (1851)

• White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War (1850)

• Mardi: And a Voyage Thither (1849)

• Redburn: His First Voyage (1849)

• Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847)

• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)

Poetry

• Weeds and Wildings, and a Rose or Two (1924)

• Timoleon(1891)

• John Marr and Other Sailors (1888)

• Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876)

• Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866)

See also:

• The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville (2007) by Kevin J. Hayes

• Melville: His World and Work (2006) by Andrew Delbanco

• Reading Pierre, or The Ambiguities (2006) by Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker

• Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891) (2002, 2005) by Hershel Parker

• Melville: His World and Work (2005) by Andrew Delbanco

• Herman Melville's Whaling Years (2004) by Wilson L. Heflin with Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas Farel Heffernan, eds.

• Melville's Prisoners (2003) by Harrison Hayford

• The Gay Herman Melville Reader (2002) by Ken Schellenberg

• Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance (2001) by John Bryant

• Herman Melville A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (2000) by
  Carl E. Rollyson and Lisa Olson Paddock

• Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (1998), Robert S. Levine., ed.

• Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1, 1819-1851) (1996) by Hershel Parker with Maurice Sendak, Illustrator

• Melville: A Biography (1996) by Laurie Robertson-Lorant

• Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing (1996) by Elizabeth Renker

• Closet Writing/Gay Reading: The Case of Melville's Pierre (1994) by James Creech

• The Civil War World of Herman Melville (1993) by Stanton Garner

• Reading Billy Budd (1991) by Hershel Parker

• Epistemology of the Closet (1990) by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

• A Companion to Melville Studies (1986), John Bryant, ed.

• Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville (1986) by Robert K. Martin

• Monsieur Melville: When Moby-Dick Blows (1978, 1985) by Victor-Levy Beaulieu

• Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (1983) by Michael Paul Rogin

• War in Melville's Imagination (1981) by Joyce Sparer Adler

• The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing (2003) by Norman Mailer
  Throughout, Mailer ties in examples from his own career, and reflects on the works of his fellow writers, living and dead -- Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Joan Didion, John Updike, Mark Twain, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, William Styron, and a host of others. In The Spooky Art, Mailer captures the unique untold suffering and exhilaration of the novelist’s daily life and, while plotting a clear path for other writers to follow, maintains reverence for the underlying mystery and power of the art.

• Herman Melville and His World (1971) by Gay Wilson Allen