Herman Melville
Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville abandoned fiction writing in 1857, turning to poetry and a career as...
The Top 10 Poets – Born in New York City - Five poems each from some of the New York born poets ever
Philip Freneau, Emma Lazarus, Alan Seeger, Alice Duer Miller, Julia Ward Howe, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, Alfred Kreymborg, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, George Arnold
The Top 10 Poets – The American Men - Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever born in the USA
Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vachel Lindsay, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville
Tales of the Dark Romantics & Beyond - A collection of mysterious and chilling works by
Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, William Cullen Bryant, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Brontë, Lord Tennyson Alfred, James Whitcomb Riley
50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories Vol1 - Selections from Poe London Twain Melville Kipling Dickens Tolstoy Joyce Hemingway Bradbury Christie and many more
Washington Irving, Prosper Mérimée, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Thomas Hardy, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Rainer Maria Rilke, H.H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Katherine Mansfield, Willa Cather, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Fiódor Dostoiévski, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Woolf, Ring Lardner, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, E. M. Forster, H.P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie
50+ Great Novellas and Short Stories Vol2 - Selections from Irving Wilde Chopin Wells Chekhov Kafka Dostoyevsky Hemingway Bradbury Christie and many more
Washington Irving, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Ivan Turgenev, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joel Chandler Harris, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Jerome K., Kate Chopin, H. G. Wells, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H.H. Munro, O. Henry, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Galsworthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, G. K. Chesterton, Ivan Bunin, Aleksandr Kuprin, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Mikhail Bulgakov, Agatha Christie
101 Great American Poems - To My Dear and Loving Husband The Planting of the Apple-Tree Concord Hymn The Arrow and the Song Alone Annabel Lee and others
Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Frances E. W. Harper, Emily Dickinson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gertrude Stein, Vachel Lindsay, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Amy Lowell, James Oppenheim, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emma Lazarus, Louisa May Alcott, Ellis Parker Butler, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Matthew Arnold, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Sara Teasdale, William Barnes
New York Short Stories NOT by O Henry - The name that first comes to mind isn't always the best
Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Achmed Abdullah, Dorothy Parker, HP Lovecraft, Rudolph Fisher, Robert W. Chambers
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