Herman Melville Audio

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.

In Melville's classic short novel Bartleby, a clerk in a law firm, suddenly starts answering all requests with "I would prefer not to"...

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

On the surface, this is the story of slavery and mutiny on the high seas, but beneath the adventure-charged plot lies the author’s examination of the subject that so fascinated him…

Written some 40 years after "Moby Dick", Herman Meville's "Billy Budd" is a moving tale of good versus evil.

Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is press-ganged into the crew of HMS Indomitable in 1797, soon after the mutiny in the British fleet.

It's 1791. Friendly, handsome, and popular Billy Budd is a sailor on board the British warship...

Listeners will be captivated by this moving tale of good versus evil through the life of winsome young sailor Billy Budd.

This collection is a short story lover's dream - over a dozen classic works, presented in their entirety...

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

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

First published in 1851, this realistic account of a whaling voyage contains within a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his fate...

A splash of the sea and the salt in the ocean air signals the beginning of the greatest whaling adventure of all time. This is literature's great voyage...

The Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod, spirals the globe in search of Moby Dick, the mythical white whale of the Southern Oceans...

One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter.

The Nantucket whaling ship, the Pequod, spirals the globe in search of Moby Dick, the mythical white whale of the Southern Oceans...

Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic.

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

Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him.

Herman Melville's first novel is based on his experiences traveling through the South Sea islands...

Melville’s hero, Tommo, and his friend, Toby, jump ship in the Marquesas hoping to find paradise.

Written by Herman Melville and performed by Michael Scherer. This is an unabridged, 11 1/2 hour, literary, mp3 audiobook–that plays well for mature and young audiences.