Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, the Piazza Tales, the Confidence-Man, Billy Budd, Uncollected Prose (Loa #24)

by Library of America Staff and Herman Melville

Book Overview

Forgoing the narratives of the sea that prevailed in his earlier works, Melville's later fiction contains some of the finest and many of his keenest and bleakest observations of life, not on the high seas, but at home in America. With the publication of this Library of America volume, the third of three volumes, all Melville's fiction has now been restored to print for the first time. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities , published in 1852 (the year after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940450240
• ISBN13: 9780940450240
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1478 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher