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He wrote "Bartleby, the Scrivener" while living at Arrowhead, his farm in the Berkshires |
Melville
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$1,200 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LIT |
2024-07-10 |
#9143 |
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Leviathan is a journal put out 3 times a year by an organization dedicated to this author & his works |
Herman Melville
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FJ |
AMERICAN AUTHORS |
2017-04-10 |
#7506 |
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The manuscript for "Billy Budd" was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death |
Herman Melville
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$1,000 |
J |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
2011-02-28 |
#6096 |
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At the end of his novel "Typee", the hero escapes on a whaler |
Melville
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$400 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LIT |
2009-04-06 |
#5666 |
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His bestselling first novel, published in 1846, was set in Polynesia |
Herman Melville ("Typee")
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FJ |
AMERICAN AUTHORS |
1999-12-14 |
#3517 |
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J.N. Reynolds' "Mocha Dick", about a white whale, was published 12 years before this man's "Moby Dick" |
Herman Melville
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$200 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
1998-03-25 |
#3133 |
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"Israel Potter" is an 1855 novel of the American Revolution by this author of "Moby-Dick" |
Herman Melville
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$400 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
1994-11-09 |
#2343 |
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The title of his 1847 novel "Omoo" is Polynesian for a person who wanders from island to island |
Melville
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$800 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
1993-03-01 |
#1961 |
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His 1853 short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" is subtitled "A Story of Wall Street" |
Herman Melville
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$1,000 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
1992-11-30 |
#1896 |
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His first novel, "Typee", in 1846, was based on his experiences when he deserted a whaler in the south Pacific |
Herman Melville
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$600 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
1992-11-18 |
#1888 |
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In 1839, at age 19, he joined the crew of the freighter St. Lawrence that ran between NYC & Liverpool |
Herman Melville
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FJ |
AMERICAN AUTHORS |
1990-05-17 |
#1329 |
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He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name |
Herman Melville
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$600 |
DJ |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
1990-03-05 |
#1276 |
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After he wrote "Omoo" & "The Whale", he published a book of Civil War poems called "Battle-Pieces" |
Herman Melville
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$200 |
DJ |
AMERICAN AUTHORS |
1989-07-06 |
#1134 |