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width="150" alt="Author Picture"> </td> <td class="authorimage"> <ul> <li><b>Author:</b> Herman Melville <span class="recordID"><b>Author Record # </b>2032</span> <li><b>Legal Name:</b> Melville, Herman <li><b>Birthplace:</b> New York City, New York, USA <li><b>Birthdate:</b> 1 August 1819 <li><b>Deathdate:</b> 28 September 1891 <li><b>Language:</b> English <li><b>Webpages:</b> <a href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm" target="_blank">Books and Writers</a>, <a href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/melville_herman" target="_blank">Encyclopedia of Fantasy</a>, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578479/" target="_blank">IMDB</a>, <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n79006936" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>, <a href="http://www.mobydick.org/" target="_blank">mobydick.org</a>, <a href="https://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/melville_herman" target="_blank">SFE</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville" target="_blank">Wikipedia-EN</a> <li><b>Author Tags:</b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?5849+2032" dir="ltr">isolation</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?16466+2032" dir="ltr">1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?6363+2032" dir="ltr">Fantasy: The 100 Best Books</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?731+2032" dir="ltr">ghosts</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?3478+2032" dir="ltr">spiritualism</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?51+2032" dir="ltr">fantasy</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?15838+2032" dir="ltr">resistance</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?10638+2032" dir="ltr">passivity</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?15837+2032" dir="ltr">dead letter office</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?6364+2032" dir="ltr">Horror: 100 Best Books</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?8128+2032" dir="ltr">first person point of view</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?15836+2032" dir="ltr">clerk</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?15835+2032" dir="ltr">Wall St.</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?8063+2032" dir="ltr">absurdist</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?8666+2032" dir="ltr">automata</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?13337+2032" dir="ltr">watchmaker</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?5842+2032" dir="ltr">Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection</a> (1), <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/tag_author.cgi?291+2032" dir="ltr">horror</a> (1) </ul> </td> </table> Image supplied by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org" target="_blank">ISFDB</a> on <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/index.php/Image:Herman_Melville.jpg" target="_blank">this Web page</a> </div> <div class="ContentBox"> <div class="translationmessage"><b>Showing all translations. <a class="button" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?2032+None" dir="ltr">Never display translations</a> Registered users can choose which translations are shown.</b></div> <table class=bibliolinks> <tr> <td><b>Other views:</b></td> <td class="authorbiblios"><b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/eaw.cgi?2032" dir="ltr">Awards</a> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ae.cgi?2032" dir="ltr">Alphabetical</a> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?2032" dir="ltr">Chronological</a></b></td> </tr> </table> <br> <b>Collections</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?39119" dir="ltr">The Piazza Tales</a> (<b>1856</b>) <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3082603" dir="ltr">Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories</a> (<b>1980</b>) </ul> <b>Chapbooks</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1378821" dir="ltr">Bartleby, o Escriv鉶</a> [Portuguese] (<b>2009</b>) </ul> <b>Short Fiction</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2254646" dir="ltr">The Town-Ho's Story</a> (<b>1851</b>) also appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2254757" dir="ltr">The "Town-Ho's" Story</a> (<b>1851</b>) <li> <b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2029477" dir="ltr">Istoria balenierei "Town-Ho"</a> [Romanian] (<b>1984</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?97401" dir="ltr">The Tartarus of Maids</a> (<b>1855</b>) also appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Translation:</b> <div class="tooltip tooltipright"><a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2964438" dir="ltr">Der Tartarus der M鋎chen</a><sup class="mouseover">?</sup><span class="tooltiptext tooltipnarrow tooltipright">Der Tartarus der Maedchen</span></div> [German] (<b>1981</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?89631" dir="ltr">The Bell-Tower</a> (<b>1855</b>) also appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1390420" dir="ltr">The Bell Tower</a> (<b>2008</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2449193" dir="ltr">Benito Cereno</a> (<b>1856</b>) <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2449195" dir="ltr">The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles</a> (<b>1856</b>) also appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3082608" dir="ltr">The Encantadas: or: Enchanted Isles</a> (<b>1967</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2449191" dir="ltr">The Piazza</a> (<b>1856</b>) <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1774235" dir="ltr">The Apple-Tree Table</a> (<b>1856</b>) only appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1774124" dir="ltr">La table de pommier</a> [French] (<b>1973</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1377716" dir="ltr">The Lightning-Rod Man</a> (<b>1856</b>) <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3190771" dir="ltr">Typee (Excerpt)</a> (<b>1971</b>) </ul> <b>Poems</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2448707" dir="ltr">The Apparition</a> (<b>1866</b>) </ul> <b>Essays</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2707708" dir="ltr">Blackness in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"</a> (<b>2011</b>) </ul> <b>Reviews</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2707723" dir="ltr">Young Goodman Brown</a> (<b>2011</b>) <b>by</b> <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1959" dir="ltr">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a> </ul> <hr> <div class="nongenre"><b>Non-Genre Titles</b></div><br> <b>Novels</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2924201" dir="ltr">The Whale</a> (<b>1851</b>) only appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?21278" dir="ltr">Moby Dick</a> (<b>1851</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?21281" dir="ltr">The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade</a> (<b>1857</b>) </ul> <b>Short Fiction</b> <ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?94230" dir="ltr">Bartleby</a> (<b>1853</b>) also appeared as: <ul> <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2287714" dir="ltr">Bartleby: A Story of Wall Street</a> (<b>1853</b>) <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2296396" dir="ltr">Bartleby the Scrivener</a> (<b>1853</b>) <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2270669" dir="ltr">Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street</a> (<b>1853</b>) <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?997853" dir="ltr">Bartleby, the Scrivener</a> (<b>1853</b>) <li> <b>Variant:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1534426" dir="ltr">Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street</a> (<b>1853</b>) <li> <b>Translation:</b> <a class="italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1378822" dir="ltr">Bartleby, o Escriv鉶</a> [Portuguese] (<b>2009</b>) </ul> <li> <a class = "italic" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1243274" dir="ltr">Hood's Isle and the Hermit Oberlus</a> (<b>1854</b>) </ul> </div> </div> <div id="bottom"> Copyright © 1995-2024 Al von Ruff and the ISFDB team <br> 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