Herman Melville
Moby Dick, or the Whale
Read by Stewart Wills
Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel …
Typee
Read by Michael Scherer
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
Read by Bob Tassinari
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…
Sea Stories
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Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirat…
Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymo…
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Read by mb
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on Ap…
Benito Cereno
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On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Read by James K. White
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
Read by TriciaG
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leavi…
Redburn: His First Voyage
Read by James K. White
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head…
Billy Budd
Read by ScientificMethodist
Young naive sailor Billy Budd is impressed into military service with the British navy in the 1790s, framed for conspiracy to mutiny, summar…
Short Story Collection Vol. 053
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A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including short stories by Melville, Bla…
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
Read by James K. White
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists…
Moby Dick (CBC, 1949)
The 1949 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio adaptation, broadcast March 6, 1949 on CBC Stage 49 and starring Lorne Greene as Ahab…
37 American Poems
Read by Bellona Times
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD wor…
Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
Read by Clark University
Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…
Mardi Vol. 2
Read by James K. White
Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …
Short Poetry Collection 096
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of April and May 2011.
Mardi Vol. 1
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"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the …
First Chapter Collection 001
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"Are you wishing sometimes that you had a good book which you don't know, that you might just read and enjoy? The goal of this collecti…
The Piazza Tales
Read by John Greenman
A collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published in May 1856. Except for the newly written title story, "…
Pierre, or The Ambiguities
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The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister.
Short Poetry Collection 120
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013.
Short Story Collection Vol. 086
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A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. Old favorites, such as Oscar Wilde, Lord Dunsany, St…
Short Poetry Collection 106
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2012.
Short Poetry Collection 067
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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 067: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.
Short Poetry Collection 126
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This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013.
Short Poetry Collection 027
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 027: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Short Poetry Collection 155
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This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016.
Short Poetry Collection 084
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This is an open collection of poems for the months of November and December 2009.
Short Poetry Collection 167
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This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017.
Short Poetry Collection 108
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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012.
Short Poetry Collection 055
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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 055: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Short Poetry Collection 075
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This a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers during the month of January 2009.
Short Poetry Collection 204
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This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2020.
Short Poetry Collection 047
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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 047: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
Short Poetry Collection 207
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This is a collection of 70 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2020.
Short Poetry Collection 226
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This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2022.
Short Poetry Collection 236
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This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2023.Note: The poem in Section 27, "On a Lady's pre…
Short Poetry Collection 242
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This is a collection of 42 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2023.