Herman Melville is one of the greatest American novelists, short story writer and a poet. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, explora

"Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melvil

This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. Redburn is a semi-autobiographical nove

Essays on Melville's life & writing here make the case for his centrality both to 19th century writing in America & also to America's understanding of itself.

Covering American literature from its pre-contact Indigenous beginnings through the Reconstruction period, the first two volumes of The Broadview Anthology of A