Herman Melville (1819–1891)
Autor(a) de Moby Dick
About the Author
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was born into a seemingly secure, prosperous world, a descendant of prominent Dutch and English families long established in New York State. That security vanished when first, the family business failed, and then, two years later, in young mostrar mais Melville's thirteenth year, his father died. Without enough money to gain the formal education that professions required, Melville was thrown on his own resources and in 1841 sailed off on a whaling ship bound for the South Seas. His experiences at sea during the next four years were to form in part the basis of his best fiction. Melville's first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847), were partly romance and partly autobiographical travel books set in the South Seas. Both were popular successes, particularly Typee, which included a stay among cannibals and a romance with a South Sea maiden. During the next several years, Melville published three more romances that drew upon his experiences at sea: Redburn (1849) and White-Jacket (1850), both fairly realistic accounts of the sailor's life and depicting the loss of innocence of central characters; and Mardi (1849), which, like the other two books, began as a romance of adventure but turned into an allegorical critique of contemporary American civilization. Moby Dick (1851) also began as an adventure story, based on Melville's experiences aboard the whaling ship. However, in the writing of it inspired in part by conversations with his friend and neighbor Hawthorne and partly by his own irrepressible imagination and reading of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists Melville turned the book into something so strange that, when it appeared in print, many of his readers and critics were dumbfounded, even outraged. By the mid-1850s, Melville's literary reputation was all but destroyed, and he was obliged to live the rest of his life taking whatever jobs he could find and borrowing money from relatives, who fortunately were always in a position to help him. He continued to write, however, and published some marvelous short fiction pieces Benito Cereno" (1855) and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) are the best. He also published several volumes of poetry, the most important of which was Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), poems of occasionally great power that were written in response to the moral challenge of the Civil War. His posthumously published work, Billy Budd (1924), on which he worked up until the time of his death, became Melville's last significant literary work, a brilliant short novel that movingly describes a young sailor's imprisonment and death. Melville's reputation, however, rests most solidly on his great epic romance, Moby Dick. It is a difficult as well as a brilliant book, and many critics have offered interpretations of its complicated ambiguous symbolism. Darrel Abel briefly summed up Moby Dick as "the story of an attempt to search the unsearchable ways of God," although the book has historical, political, and moral implications as well. Melville died at his home in New York City early on the morning of September 28, 1891, at age 72. The doctor listed "cardiac dilation" on the death certificate. He was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York, along with his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Etching of Joseph O. Eaton's portrait of Herman Melville Published c. 1944, painting created before 1891
Séries
Obras por Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the… (1849) 560 exemplares
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd (1984) 529 exemplares
Moby-Dick (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) 276 exemplares
Classics Illustrated: Moby Dick (graphic adaptation by Bill Sienkiewicz) (1990) — Original Author — 109 exemplares
Herman Melville: Complete Poems (LOA #320): Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War / Clarel / John Marr and Other Sailors… (2019) 86 exemplares
Herman Melville: Moby Dick, Billy Budd and Other Writings (Library of America College Editions) (2000) 84 exemplares
Selected writings of Herman Melville: complete short stories, Typee [and] Billy Budd, foretopman (1952) 78 exemplares
Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Moby-Dick, White-Jacket, Israel Potter & Redburn (1928) 41 exemplares
Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition (Melville) (1987) 25 exemplares
Shorter Novels of Herman Melville, Benitoo Cereno, Bertley the Scrivener, The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, Billy… (1942) 18 exemplares
The works of Herman Melville. v. 13. Billy Budd, and other prose pieces, edited by R. W. Weaver. 16 exemplares
Grolier Classics: Moby Dick/Life of Samuel Johnson/The Social Contract, The Odyssey (1955) 16 exemplares
Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville, Vol. 6) (1988) 13 exemplares
Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : An Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic (2002) 12 exemplares
Tre scene da Moby Dick tradotte e commentate da Alessandro Baricco. testo inglese a fronte (2009) 11 exemplares
In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (2011) 10 exemplares
Moby-Dick. An authoritative text, before Moby-Dick: international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville,… 10 exemplares
Moby-Dick, or, the whale ; and, An extract from Narrative of the most extraordinary and distressing shipwreck of the… 10 exemplares
Moby Dick (Short Classics) 8 exemplares
The Condensed Moby Dick (Herman Melville's Classic Abridged for the Modern Reader) (2012) 7 exemplares
Norfolk Isle & the Chola widow 7 exemplares
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings: The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 13 (2017) 6 exemplares
Reading & Training : Herman Melville : Moby Dick [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 5 exemplares
The Herman Melville Collection (10 novels, 16 short stories, and 4 collections of poetry, all with an active Table of… (2011) 4 exemplares
Moby Dick, or the White Whale, an Abridged Edition 4 exemplares
The letters of Herman Melville 4 exemplares
Poems, containing Battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems 3 exemplares
Herman Melville (World's Greatest Short Stories) 3 exemplares
Herman Melville: Complete Collection of Works with analysis and historical background (Annotated and Illustrated)… (2013) 3 exemplares
Moby Dick. Erster Teil. Vollständige Ausgabe mit einem Nachwort von Rudolf Sühnel (1977) 3 exemplares
De beste verhalen van Herman Melville 3 exemplares
"Moby Dick", der weiße Wal, nach Herman Melville, übersetzt und für die Jugend bearbeitet von Thomas Trent 3 exemplares
Putnam's monthly 3 exemplares
Herman Melville: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (1938) 3 exemplares
Die Reisetagebücher: Reise von New York nach London 1849 / Reise ins Heilige Land 1856/57 / Reise an Bord des… (2001) 3 exemplares
Herman Melville's MOBY DICK Leather Bound Book - Classic Books - Collectible Books #6520-017 (1977) 3 exemplares
A Ilíada e a Guerra de Tróia 2 exemplares
Melville - Le cento pagine più belle 2 exemplares
Modydick 2 exemplares
El vendedor de pararrayos 2 exemplares
Short Fiction 2 exemplares
Billy Budd, Benito Cereno and The Enchanted Isles 2 exemplares
THE ORIGINALS: MOBY DICK OR THE WHALE 2 exemplares
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Norton Critical Editions) by Herman Melville (2005-12-19) (1866) 2 exemplares
MOBY DICK Illustrated 2 exemplares
El jugador 2 exemplares
Poemas - Herman Melville (Portuguese Edition) 2 exemplares
Ficção curta completa 2 exemplares
Melville on Melville 2 exemplares
Best of Melville: Moby-Dick D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick Typee The Piazza Tales (The Piazza Bartleby Benito… (2013) 2 exemplares
The Tartarus of Maids (Short Story) 2 exemplares
Moby Dick and Other Works (Halcyon Classics) 2 exemplares
Herman Melville: Selected Stories (Unabridged) 2 exemplares
Obras completas, 3 vols. 2 exemplares
Die große Kunst, die Wahrheit zu sagen. Von Walen, Dichtern und anderen Herrlichkeiten (2005) 2 exemplares
La mesa de madera de manzano / El Paraíso de los solteros y el Tártaro de las doncellas (2013) 2 exemplares
The Town Ho´s Story (1851) 2 exemplares
The Indispensable Melville 2 exemplares
De betoverde eilanden / Bartleby 2 exemplares
Benito Cereno: Il tartaro delle vergini: Il paradiso degli scapoli: Bartleby lo scrivano 2 exemplares
Ich und mein Kamin eine Erzählung 1 exemplar
Biblioteca basica Salva rtv:Benito cereno 1 exemplar
Herman Mellville's Billy Budd: Foretopman 1 exemplar
ම්ලේච්ඡයන් අතර සිවු මසක් 1 exemplar
Le cento pagine più belle di Melville 1 exemplar
මෝබිඩික් : ධවල තල්මසාගේ කතාන්තරය 1 exemplar
Moby Dick - Great Illustrated Classics 1 exemplar
mpilly mpant kai alles istories 1 exemplar
Moby Dick'1 1 exemplar
Selected poems of Herman Melville 1 exemplar
Works of Herman Melville. Moby Dick, Omoo, Billy Budd, Sailor, The Piazza Tales & more (Mobi Collected Works) (2007) 1 exemplar
10 Books by Melville 1 exemplar
Moby Dick-Junior Classics 1 exemplar
Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse 1 exemplar
Μόμπι Ντικ - Classics Illustrated 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 35/22N 1 exemplar
Paraiso de canibais 1 exemplar
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 2 1 exemplar
Art 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK 2 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK 1 1 exemplar
“The Martyr” 1 exemplar
Redburn-Classic Original Edition(Annotated) 1 exemplar
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplar
Moby-Dick of The Whale 1 exemplar
Billy Budd & Benito Cereno, (Leather-bound Collector's edition, paintings by Robert Shore), hc, 2004 1 exemplar
PACHUCHE BET 1 exemplar
The Plague Ship. (short story) 1 exemplar
The World's Great Classics: Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Profili di donne 1 exemplar
Moby Dick & Billy Budd (Longmeadow Press) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick - Adaptación de Carolina Aros 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Ca Voi Trang 1 exemplar
Moby Dick Histórias em quadrinhos 1 exemplar
Billy Budd read by Christopher Timothy 1 exemplar
Las estatuas de Roma 2010 1 exemplar
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural 1 exemplar
Moby Dick by Herman Melville Paperback Book 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK.TRADUCTION DE L'AMERICAIN PAR HENRIETTE GUEX-ROLLE.CHRONOLOGIE ET PREFACE PAR ROBERT SILHOL. (1970) 1 exemplar
אוסף סיפורי ים ונהר אחד — Autor — 1 exemplar
Covek od poverenja 1 exemplar
Povesti i rasskazy ; Stikhotvorenia 1 exemplar
Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 2 1 exemplar
Собрание сочинений в трех томах. Том 1 1 exemplar
Billy Budd and Other Tales 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (eNewton Classici) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick - Abril Cultural - 2 Volumes 1 exemplar
Contos 1 exemplar
Os dramas do mar. Benito Cereno. Billy Budd 1 exemplar
Annales 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (two chapters) 1 exemplar
The complete stories 1 exemplar
Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Ενκαντάδας-Μπάρτελμπυ-Μπίλλυ Μπάντ 1 exemplar
Amazing illustrated classics: Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Čovek od poverenja 1 exemplar
Moby Dick & other stories 1 exemplar
Les encantades 1 exemplar
Moby Dick "Moby Dick" 1 exemplar
Herman Melville, complete and unabridged 1 exemplar
Cetologia 1 exemplar
Billy Budd, and other prose pieces; (The works of Herman Melville. Standard edition. vol. XIII) 1 exemplar
Benito Cereno et autres contes de la Véranda 1 exemplar
The Originals Moby-Dick, or The Whale 1 exemplar
Izrael Potter 1 exemplar
Relatos de Hawthorne y Melville 1 exemplar
Erzählungen. 1 exemplar
Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish 1 exemplar
First Student's Classics: Moby-Dick 1 exemplar
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The Great Classics for Children: Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Cocorico et autres contres 1 exemplar
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The New and Definitive Text, Edited from an Analysis and Independent… (1963) 1 exemplar
The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville: Benito Cereno - Billy Budd, Foretopman - Bartleby the Scrivener - The Encantadas (1928) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1 exemplar
The Sea: Excerpts from Herman Melville. 1 exemplar
Illustrated Classics Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Fives Tales 1 exemplar
O meu primeiro Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Weranda i inne równie prawdziwe opowieści 1 exemplar
Masa din lemn de mar 1 exemplar
Poesie (testo inglese a fronte) 1 exemplar
Obras 1 exemplar
Bartleby (film) 1 exemplar
Bartleby. Erzählungen. Aus dem Englischen von Marianne Graefe u.a. Mit einem Nachwort von Karl-Heinz… (1981) 1 exemplar
Billy in the darbies: A facsimile from the manuscript of Herman Melville's Billy Budd, sailor : printed as a… (1991) 1 exemplar
Reisefresken dreier Brüder: Dichter, Maler, Müssiggänger: Tagebuch einer Reise nach Europa und in die… (1991) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick . Volumen II 1 exemplar
Complete Works of Herman Melville "American Novelist, Short Story Writer and Poet from the Renaissance Period"! 19… (2016) 1 exemplar
Moby-Dick, etc 1 exemplar
Moby Dick . Volumen I 1 exemplar
Vortoppmann Billy Budd und Erzählungen 1 exemplar
Moby Dick, EDCON abridged 1 exemplar
El cuento norteamericano del siglo XIX 1 exemplar
Moby Dick Big Read (Audiobook) 1 exemplar
Four Great Novels by Herman Melville, (Complete and Unabridged). Including Moby Dick, Typee, a Romance of the South… (2013) 1 exemplar
Snowflakes (Annotated) 1 exemplar
The Birth-Mark (Annotated) 1 exemplar
La Charge de la Baleine Blanche 1 exemplar
Eight Great American Short Novels 1 exemplar
El escribiente y otros relatos 1 exemplar
The Man-of-War Hawk [poem] 1 exemplar
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. The Fiddler. Jimmy Rose / Τρεις απόκληροι :… (2010) 1 exemplar
Four novels 1 exemplar
Le Campanile 1 exemplar
Modern Masquerade 1 exemplar
Moby Dick - Illustrierte Klassiker, Nr. 37 1 exemplar
Short novels 1 exemplar
MOBY DICK, RAGAZZINI 1 exemplar
Complete Shorter Fiction, The / Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Un berceau de verdure chez les Arsacides 1 exemplar
Works 16 vols 1 exemplar
Shorter Novels 1 exemplar
Complete Stories 1 exemplar
El embaucador 1 exemplar
Má první plavba 1 exemplar
Abenteuer in der Südsee: Taipi Omoo: Ein Blick auf Polynesisches Leben (German Edition) (2014) 1 exemplar
La torre campanaria (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplar
Billy Budd Sailer and The Piazza Tales 1 exemplar
Poesie scelte (in Opere scelte) 1 exemplar
Las Islas Encantadas y bartleby 1 exemplar
Billy Budd. Opowieść wtajemniczonego 1 exemplar
Billy Bud and Six Other Tales 1 exemplar
Cojocelul alb 1 exemplar
Moby Dick [Audible] 1 exemplar
Authentic Anecdotes of Old Zack 1 exemplar
Billy Budd & Piazza Tales - Herman Melville - The Franklin Library - Alan Price Drawings - Editors Notes (1982) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick (Adventure) - Intermediate 1 exemplar
Moby Dick [Adapté - Jacques Marcireau] 1 exemplar
Redburn, Israel Potter und sämtliche Erzählungen, Nachwort, Erläuterungen und aus dem Amerikanischen von… (1967) 1 exemplar
Moby Dick - vol. 26 1 exemplar
Raj ľudožrútov 1 exemplar
Redburn ou sa premiere croisiere 1 exemplar
Moby Dick Libro terzo 1 exemplar
Moby Dick eller Den vita valen 2 1 exemplar
An Imposition of Whales 1 exemplar
Hooked on Phonics: Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville 1 exemplar
Fragments from a Writing Desk 1 exemplar
Uncollected Poems 1 exemplar
Illustrierte Klassiker : Die spannendsten Geschichten der Weltliteratur : Nr. 37 : Moby Dick 1 exemplar
"Shiloh" 1 exemplar
Moby Dick, etc. [Abridged.] 1 exemplar
A Thought on Book-Binding 1 exemplar
Graphic Classic #6: Moby Dick 1 exemplar
Maldive Shark 1 exemplar
Melville. opere scelte 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Melville, Herman
- Nome legal
- Melville, Herman
- Outros nomes
- Melvill, Herman [birth name/original spelling]
- Data de nascimento
- 1819-08-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1891-09-28
- Localização do túmulo
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County, New York, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- cardiovascular disease
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA [1819-1830]
Albany, New York, USA [1830-1838]
Troy, New York, USA [1838]
merchantman St. Lawrence [1839]
whaling ship Acushnet [1841]
whaling ship Charles & Henry (mostrar todos 7)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- New York Male School (1825)
Columbia Grammar School (1829-1830)
Albany Classical School (1835)
Albany Academy (1830-1831)
Albany Academy (1836-1837)
Lansingburgh Acadamy (1838) - Ocupações
- bank clerk (1832-1834)
sailor
harpooner, whaleship Charles & Henry
farm hand (1834-1835)
novelist
Customs inspector, New York, New York, USA (mostrar todos 10)
clerk (1832-1834)
bookkeeper (1935-1937)
teacher (1837)
teacher (1839-1840) - Relações
- Metcalf, Paul (great-grandson)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (friend)
Dana, Richard Henry (friend)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Herman Melville, American author, was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819. He shipped as a cabin-boy at the age of eighteen, thus being enabled to make his first visit to England, and at twenty-two sailed for a long whaling cruise in the Pacific. After a year and a half he deserted his ship at the Marquesas Islands, on account of the cruelty of the captain; was captured by cannibals on the island of Nukahiva, and detained, without hardship, four months; was rescued by the crew of an Australian vessel, which he joined, and two years later reached New York. Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in 1860, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literature -- though for a considerable period (1866-1885) he held a post in the New York custom-house -- and being perhaps Hawthorne's most intimate friend among the literary men of America. His writings were numerous, but judged of varying merit by his contemporaries; his verse, patriotic and other was forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel were deemed of irregular execution. Nevertheless, few authors have been enabled so freely to introduce romantic personal experiences into their books. He portrayed seafaring life and character with vigour and originality, and from a personal knowledge equal to that of Cooper, Marryat or Clark Russell. But these records of adventure were followed by other tales that his contemporaries found so turgid, eccentric, opinionative, and loosely written as to seem the work of another author. He died a failed author in New York on the 28th of September 1891. The 20th century's collective reassessment of his work is much more favorable, and he is now classed among the greatest American writers.
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