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It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. - Herman Melville Attribution: Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “At the Hostelry” (posthumous), p. 353, Poems, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 16, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924).

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Herman Melville

Titles by Herman Melville:

• Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street
• Billy Budd
• Classic American Short Stories
• Moby Dick

Salem on History:

• Herman Melville

Critical Companions:

• Melville, Herman (1819 - 1891) (Gothic Literature)

eNotes:

• Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
• Herman Melville (Billy Budd)
• Herman Melville (Bartleby the Scrivener, A Tale of Wall Street)

Encyclopedia:

• Melville, Herman (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Melville, Herman (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
• Melville, Herman (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• Herman Melville (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Herman Melville (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Herman Melville (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Herman Melville (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Herman Melville (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
• Herman Melville (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Redburn: His First Voyage, Herman Melville (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Benito Cereno, Herman Melville (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Pierre, or, The Ambiguities, Herman Melville (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville, Herman (Short Story Criticism)
• Billy Budd, Herman Melville (Short Story Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Herman Melville is born
• Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• Herman Melville dies