“Every crease is a story.”

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1819–1891
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source].)
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville, 1851

Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville, 1966

The Confidence Man
Herman Melville, 1923

Billy Budd
Herman Melville, 1900
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The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
James Edwin Miller, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer & others, 1952

The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith & others

Typee
Herman Melville, 1840

Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition
Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz & others

Benito Cereno
Herman Melville, 1926

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience
Nance Davidson, Edward Abbey & others

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Richard Bausch, R. V. Cassill & others

The Short Story
Beverly Lawn, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others

The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden & others

White-Jacket
Herman Melville, 1850

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others

The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition
Michael Meyer, Margaret Atwood & others

The Experience of Literature
Lionel Trilling, William Shakespeare & others, 1967

Great American Short Stories
Paul Negri, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others

Piazza Tales
Herman Melville, 1923

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
Harold Bloom, Gilbert Keith Chesterton & others

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
Herman Melville

The Frankenstein Omnibus
Peter Haining, Mary Shelley & others

The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden & others

The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps & others, 1949

Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams & others

The Story and its Writer -- Third Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe & others

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Herman Melville, 1960

Omoo
Herman Melville, 1847

Israel Potter
Herman Melville, 1923

Words of Ages
Tiffany Farrell Larbalestier, John Smith & others

Elements of Literature - Third Canadian Edition
Robert Scholes, Nancy R. Comley & others

Short Stories -- Classic, Modern, Contemporary
Klein M, Marcus Klein & others, 1967

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Billy Budd / Red Badge of Courage / Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain & others, 1969

The Situation of the Story
Diana Young, Flannery O'Connor & others

Pierre, or the Ambiguities
Herman Melville, 1852

The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Second Edition
Jon C. Stott, Raymond E. Jones & others

Essays of the Masters
W. H. Auden, Honoré de Balzac & others, 1956

Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Felix Sutton & Herman Melville, 1956

Perrine's Story and Structure--Twelfth Edition
Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson & others

The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James. & others, 1971

American Short Stories
Douglas Grant, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others, 1965

Forms of the Novella
David H. Richter, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ & others

The Shape of Fiction. Stories for Comparaison
Alan Casty, Nathaniel Hawthorne & others, 1967
Moby Dic
Herman Melville

Short Novels of the Masters
Herman Melville, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский & others, 1901

Classic American Short Stories
Ted Hipple, Washington Irving & others
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