Melville.org

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously.




Short Story Collections

The Happy Failure
(Harper Perennial Classic Stories, 2009)

reviewed by melissa Lee-Houghton

Benito Cereno (1855)

The Piazza Tales (1856)

Billy Budd (1998)

 
                     
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