TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Introduction

       Herman Melville by Virginia Woolf

       Novels

       Typee

       Omoo

       Mardi

       Redburn

       White-Jacket

       Moby-Dick

       Pierre

       Israel Potter

       The Confidence-Man

       Short Stories

       The Piazza Tales

       The Piazza

       Bartleby, the Scrivener

       Benito Cereno

       The Lightning-Rod Man

       The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles

       The Bell-Tower

       The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches

       The Apple-Tree Table

       Jimmy Rose

       I and My Chimney

       The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids

       Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!

       The Fiddler

       Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs

       The Happy Failure

       The ‘Gees

       Poetry

       Clarel – A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

       Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

       John Marr and Other Sailors

       Timoleon and Other Ventures in Minor Verse

       Poems from Mardi

       Essays

       Fragments from a Writing Desk

       Etchings of a Whaling Cruise

       Authentic Anecdotes of “Old Zack”

       Mr. Parkman’s Tour

       Cooper’s New Novel

       A Thought on Book-Binding

       Hawthorne and His Mosses

INTRODUCTION

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HERMAN MELVILLE BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

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      Somewhere upon the horizon of the mind, not recognizable yet in existence, ‘Typee’ and ‘Omoo’ together with the name of Herman Melville, float in company. But since Herman Melville is apt to become Whyte Melville or Herman Merivale and ‘Omoo’ for some less obvious reason connects itself with the adventures of an imaginary bushranger who is liable to turn jockey and then play a part in the drama of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, it is evident that a mist, due to ignorance or the lapse of time, must have descended upon those far distant