Because of his extensive experience as a seaman and a whaler, his descriptions of life out at sea were comprehensive and unflinchingly accurate. Melville was also able to communicate the fear and terror of a whale hunt, a feat that would make his greatest work, Moby Dick, a literary tribute to the whaling industry.
This books contains the complete works of Melville:
This books contains the complete works of Melville:
- Typee: A Romance of the South Seas.
- Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas.
- Mardi: and A Voyage Thither.
- Redburn: His First Voyage.
- White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War.
- Moby-Dick: or, The Whale.
- Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.
- Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile.
- The Piazza Tales.
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.
- Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
- John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces.
- Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse.
- The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches.
- Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces.
- Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two.
- Essays.
- Uncollected Poems.