The works of Herman Melville

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Vol. 1: Typee : a peep at polynesian life. Vol. 2: Ornoo : a narrative of adventures in the South Seas. Vol. 3/4: Mardi and a voyage thither. -- Vol. 5: Redburn. His first voyage: Being the sailor-boy confessions. Vol. 6: White jacket or the world in a man-of-war. Vol. 7/8: Moby-Dick or, the whale. -- Vol. 9: Pierre or, the ambiguities. Vol. 10: [The Piazza Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102742W/The_Piazza_Tales) Vol. 11: Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile. Vol. 12: The confidence-man : His masquerade. Vol. 13: Billy Budd and other prose pieces / Ed. by Raymond W. Weaver. Vol. 14/15: Clarel. A poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land. -- Vol. 16: Poems : Containing battle-pieces, John Marr and other sailors, Timoleon and miscellaneous poems.

subjects: American Short Stories,  Manners and customs in fiction,  Manners and customs,  Fiction,  Young men,  Copyists,  classic literature,  Psychology,  Securities industry

People: Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Benito Cereno

Places: New York,  Wall Street

Times: 19th century