Herman Melville Online

Complete texts of the following works exist online and can be downloaded from this page. Many thanks to Heyward Ehrlich of Rutgers University for providing most of these URLs:

The Novels

• Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) (Virginia Tech)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (annotated with selected bibliography) (University of Virginia)
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Gutenberg Project, University of Minnesota)
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Oxford University)
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Virginia Tech)
• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Wiretap)
• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Columbia University)
• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Virginia Tech)

Short Stories and Other Prose Pieces

• Bartleby, the Scrivener (Project Bartleby at Columbia University)
• Bartleby, the Scrivener, with Commentary (University of Texas at Austin)
• The Bell-Tower
• Benito Cereno (Virginia Tech)
• "Chronometricals and Horologicals" (Plinlimmon's Pamphlet) from Pierre
• The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
• The Lightning-Rod Man
• The Piazza

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