Herman Melville Audio & Video

You may want to read one of the great American novels Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The Moby Dick Big Read project has now completed all 135 chapters of the novel with high quality recordings from great actors and everyday people.

Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener is a classic American short story, a strange tale of a constantly busy copyist whose simple refrain, "I would prefer not to", wreaks havoc on his workplace.

You may want to read one of the great American novels Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The Moby Dick Podcast contains all 135 chapters of the novel as separate podcast episodes.

Herman Melville's first book recounts Melville's real life experiences when he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and became a captive of a cannibal island tribe.

This is a short story about a lawyer with offices on Wall Street in New York City.

The epic story of Captain Ahab's incredible quest for the elusive great whale is widely regarded...

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations

Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since.

The action is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the summer of 1797.

These 6 short novels show Melville's cleverness and wit as well as his understanding of both the comic...