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Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819. He worked as a crew member on several vessels beginning in 1839, his experiences spawning his successful early novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Subsequent books, including his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851), sold poorly, and by the 1860s Melville had turned to poetry. Following his death in New York City in 1891, he posthumously came to be regarded as one of the great American writers.

Melville's growing literary ambition showed in Moby-Dick (1851), which took nearly a year and a half to write, but it did not find an audience and critics scorned his psychological novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). From 1853 to 1856, Melville published short fiction in magazines, including "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener". In 1857, he traveled to England, toured the Near East, and published his last work of prose, The Confidence-Man (1857). He moved to New York in 1863, eventually taking a position as United States customs inspector.

The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:

Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
I and My Chimney
Israel Potter His Fifty Years of Exile
John Marr and Other Poems
Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Omoo Adventures in the South Seas
Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Redburn. His First Voyage
The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches
The Confidence-Man His Masquerade
The Piazza Tales
Typee A Romance of the South Seas
Typee
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War


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