Herman Melville wrote short stories for two of the 19th-century's leading monthly magazines, Harper's and Putnam's. This collection features 14 selections from those magazines, including "The Encant
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!'It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recrui
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summ
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Confidence - Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible
When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he is clueless to the horrors that await him on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip
In this spirited saga, a promising young solider is wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, sets sail with John Paul Jones, and undertakes espionage at the behest of Benjamin Franklin. Herman Melville d
