The Portable Melville

Description:

Two Complete Novels - Typee and [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd) Self-contained excerpts of four other novels Stories, including "[Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)" Selections from travel journals Letters, poems, marginalia, and other writings specially arranged with editiorial comments that tell the story of Herman Melville's life in relation to his work.

subjects: Fiction,  Young men,  Copyists,  classic literature,  Psychology,  Securities industry PEOPLE,  American fiction,  anthologies,  literature,  classics,  Sailors,  Ship captains,  Executions and executioners,  Impressment,  Sea stories,  adult readers,  Study and teaching,  Historical Fiction,  American Short stories,  American literature,  Children's fiction,  Fiction, general

People: Billy Budd,  Edward Fairfax Vere,  John Claggart,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero

Places: New York,  Wall Street