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Herman Melville

American novelist (1819-1891)

About Herman Melville

Melville gained popularity for his South Seas adventure stories Typee and Omoo. His later allegorical novels, the most important of which was Moby-Dick, were not popular successes during his lifetime, but have now been recognized as some of the most important American novels of the nineteenth century.

Melville serialized only one of his novels, Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. However, he also published short fiction in magazines, often in two or three parts.

Herman Melville Novels Available at Mousehold Words

Benito Cereno (1855)
3 parts of 10,000-11,000 words each.

One of Melville's most famous stories, an atmospheric nautical mystery that begins when two ships with two very different captains meet off of South America.
Israel Potter (1854-55)
9 parts of 5,000-10,000 words each.

Melville's odd mock-epic tells the story of an American Revolutionary War soldier who is caught up in world affairs and thrown together with several legendary American figures.

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