EPILOGUE.
PIERRE: OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.
By Herman Melville
1852
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
BOOK I. PIERRE JUST EMERGING FROM HIS TEENS
BOOK II. LOVE, DELIGHT, AND ALARM
BOOK III. THE PRESENTIMENT AND THE VERIFICATION
BOOK IV. RETROSPECTIVE
BOOK V. MISGIVINGS AND PREPARATIVES
BOOK VI. ISABEL, AND THE FIRST PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL
BOOK VII. INTERMEDIATE BETWEEN PIERRE'S TWO INTERVIEWS WITH ISABEL AT THE FARM-HOUSE
BOOK VIII. THE SECOND INTERVIEW, AND THE SECOND PART OF THE STORY OF ISABEL. THEIR IMMEDIATE IMPULSIVE EFFECT UPON PIERRE
BOOK IX. MORE LIGHT, AND THE GLOOM OF THAT LIGHT. MORE GLOOM, AND THE LIGHT OF THAT GLOOM
BOOK X. THE UNPRECEDENTED FINAL RESOLUTION OF PIERRE
BOOK XI. HE CROSSES THE RUBICON
BOOK XII. ISABEL, MRS. GLENDINNING, THE PORTRAIT, AND LUCY
BOOK XIII. THEY DEPART THE MEADOWS
BOOK XIV. THE JOURNEY AND THE PAMPHLET
BOOK XV. THE COUSINS
BOOK XVI. FIRST NIGHT OF THEIR ARRIVAL IN THE CITY
BOOK XVII. YOUNG AMERICA IN LITERATURE
BOOK XVIII. PIERRE, AS A JUVENILE AUTHOR, RECONSIDERED
BOOK XIX. THE CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES
BOOK XX. CHARLIE MILLTHORPE
BOOK XXI. PIERRE IMMATURELY ATTEMPTS A MATURE BOOK. TIDINGS FROM THE MEADOWS. PLINLIMMON
BOOK XXII. THE FLOWER-CURTAIN LIFTED FROM BEFORE A TROPICAL AUTHOR; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE TRANSCENDENTAL FLESH-BRUSH PHILOSOPHY
BOOK XXIII. A LETTER FOR PIERRE. ISABEL. ARRIVAL OF LUCY'S EASEL AND TRUNKS AT THE APOSTLES'
BOOK XXIV. LUCY AT THE APOSTLES'
BOOK XXV. LUCY, ISABEL, AND PIERRE. PIERRE AT HIS BOOK. ENCELADUS
BOOK XXVI. A WALK; A FOREIGN PORTRAIT; A SAIL. AND THE END
ISRAEL POTTER
His Fifty Years of Exile
By Herman Melville
1855
CONTENTS
ISRAEL POTTER
CHAPTER I. THE BIRTHPLACE OF ISRAEL.
CHAPTER II. THE YOUTHFUL ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL.
CHAPTER III. ISRAEL GOES TO THE WARS; AND REACHING BUNKER HILL IN TIME TO BE OF SERVICE THERE, SOON AFTER IS FORCED TO EXTEND HIS TRAVELS ACROSS THE SEA INTO THE ENEMY'S LAND.
CHAPTER IV. FURTHER WANDERINGS OF THE REFUGEE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF A GOOD KNIGHT OF BRENTFORD WHO BEFRIENDED HIM.
CHAPTER V. ISRAEL IN THE LION'S DEN.
CHAPTER VI. ISRAEL MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF CERTAIN SECRET FRIENDS OF AMERICA, ONE OF THEM BEING THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE "DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY," THESE DESPATCH HIM ON A SLY ERRAND ACROSS THE
CHAPTER VII. AFTER A CURIOUS ADVENTURE UPON THE PONT NEUF, ISRAEL ENTERS THE PRESENCE OF THE RENOWNED SAGE, DR. FRANKLIN, WHOM HE FINDS RIGHT LEARNEDLY AND MULTIFARIOUSLY EMPLOYED.
CHAPTER VIII. WHICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT DR. FRANKLIN AND THE LATIN QUARTER.
CHAPTER IX. ISRAEL IS INITIATED INTO THE MYSTERIES OF LODGING-HOUSES IN THE LATIN QUARTER.
CHAPTER X. ANOTHER ADVENTURER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE.
CHAPTER XI. PAUL JONES IN A REVERIE.
CHAPTER XII. RECROSSING THE CHANNEL, ISRAEL RETURNS TO THE SQUIRE'S ABODE—HIS ADVENTURES THERE.
CHAPTER XIII. HIS ESCAPE FROM THE HOUSE, WITH VARIOUS ADVENTURES FOLLOWING.
CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH ISRAEL IS SAILOR UNDER TWO FLAGS, AND IN THREE SHIPS, AND ALL IN ONE NIGHT.
CHAPTER XV. THEY SAIL AS FAR AS THE CRAG OF AILSA.
CHAPTER XVI. THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.
CHAPTER XVII. THEY CALL AT THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S, AND AFTERWARDS FIGHT THE SHIP-OF-WAR DRAKE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE EXPEDITION THAT SAILED FROM GROIX.
CHAPTER XIX. THEY FIGHT THE SERAPIS.
CHAPTER XX. THE SHUTTLE.
CHAPTER XXI. SAMSON AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
CHAPTER XXII. SOMETHING FURTHER OF ETHAN ALLEN; WITH ISRAEL'S FLIGHT TOWARDS THE WILDERNESS.
CHAPTER XXIII. ISRAEL IN EGYPT.
CHAPTER XXIV. CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XXV. IN THE CITY OF DIS.
CHAPTER XXVI. FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
CHAPTER XXVII. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE
By Herman Melville
1857
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. A mute goes aboard a boat on the Mississippi.
CHAPTER II. Showing that many men have many minds.
CHAPTER III. In which a variety of characters appear.
CHAPTER IV. Renewal of old acquaintance.
CHAPTER V. The man with the weed makes it an even question whether he be a great sage or a great simpleton.
CHAPTER VI. At the outset of which certain passengers prove deaf to the call of charity.
CHAPTER VII. A gentleman with gold sleeve-buttons.
CHAPTER VIII. A charitable lady.
CHAPTER IX. Two business men transact a little business.
CHAPTER X. In the cabin. [iv]
CHAPTER XI. Only a page or so.
CHAPTER XII. The story of the unfortunate man, from which may be gathered whether or no he has been justly so entitled.
CHAPTER XIII. The man with the traveling-cap evinces much humanity, and in a way which would seem to show him to be one of the most logical of optimists.
CHAPTER XIV. Worth the consideration of those to whom it may prove worth considering.
CHAPTER XV. An old miser, upon suitable representations, is prevailed upon to venture an investment.
CHAPTER XVI. A sick man, after some impatience, is induced to become a patient.
CHAPTER XVII. Towards the end of which the Herb-Doctor proves himself a forgiver of injuries.
CHAPTER XVIII. Inquest into the true character of the Herb-Doctor.
CHAPTER XIX. A soldier of fortune.
CHAPTER XX. Reappearance of one who may be remembered.
CHAPTER XXI. A hard case.
CHAPTER XXII. In the polite spirit of the Tusculan disputations.
CHAPTER XXIII. In which the powerful effect of natural scenery is evinced in the case of the Missourian, who, in view of the region round about Cairo, has a return of his chilly fit. [v]
CHAPTER XXIV. A philanthropist undertakes to convert a misanthrope, but does not get beyond confuting him.
CHAPTER XXV. The Cosmopolitan makes an acquaintance.
CHAPTER XXVI. Containing the metaphysics of Indian-hating, according to the views of one evidently not so prepossessed as Rousseau in favor of savages.
CHAPTER XXVII. Some account of a man of questionable morality, but who, nevertheless, would seem entitled to the esteem of that eminent English moralist who said he liked a good hater.
CHAPTER XXVIII. Moot points touching the late Colonel John Moredock.
CHAPTER XXIX. The boon companions.
CHAPTER XXX. Opening with a poetical eulogy of the Press, and continuing with talk inspired by the same.
CHAPTER XXXI. A metamorphosis more surprising than any in Ovid.
CHAPTER XXXII. Showing that the age of music and magicians is not yet over.
CHAPTER XXXIII. Which may pass for whatever it may prove to be worth.
CHAPTER XXXIV. In which the Cosmopolitan tells the story of the gentleman-madman.
CHAPTER XXXV. In which the Cosmopolitan strikingly evinces the artlessness of his nature.
CHAPTER XXXVI. In which the Cosmopolitan is accosted by a mystic, whereupon ensues pretty much such talk as might be expected. [vi]
CHAPTER XXXVII. The mystical master introduces the practical disciple.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The disciple unbends, and consents to act a social part.
CHAPTER XXXIX. The hypothetical friends.
CHAPTER XL. In which the story of China Aster is, at second-hand, told by one who, while not disapproving the moral, disclaims the spirit of the style.
CHAPTER XLI. Ending with a rupture of the hypothesis.
CHAPTER XLII. Upon the heel of the last scene, the Cosmopolitan enters the barber's shop, a benediction on his lips.
CHAPTER XLIII. Very charming.
CHAPTER XLIV. In which the last three words of the last chapter are made the text of the discourse, which will be sure of receiving more or less attention from those readers who do not skip it.
CHAPTER XLV. The Cosmopolitan increases in seriousness.
BATTLE-PIECES AND ASPECTS OF THE WAR.
By Herman Melville.
1866
CONTENTS
Misgivings
The Conflict of Convictions
Apathy and Enthusiasm
The March into Virginia
Lyon
Ball's Bluff
Dupont's Round Fight
The Stone Fleet
Donelson
The Cumberland
In the Turret
The Temeraire
A Utilitarian View of the Monitors Fight
Shiloh
The Battle for the Mississipppi
Malvern Hill
The Victor of Antietam
Battle of Stone River
Running the Batteries
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson (ascribed to a Virginian)
Gettysburg
The House-top
Look-out Mountain
Chattanooga
The Armies of the Wilderness
On the Photograph of a Corps Commander
The Swamp Angel
The Battle for the Bay
Sheridan at Cedar Creek
In the Prison Pen
The College Colonel
The Eagle of the Blue
A Dirge for McPherson
At the Cannon's Mouth
The March to the Sea
The Frenzy in the Wake
The Fall of Richmond
The Surrender at Appomattox
A Canticle
The Martyr
"The Coming Storm"
Rebel Color-bearers at Shiloh
The Muster
Aurora-Borealis
The Released Rebel Prisoner
A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia
"Formerly a Slave."
The Apparition
Magnanimity Baffled
On the Slain Collegians
America
Verses Inscriptive and Memorial
On the Home Guards who perished in the Defense of Lexington, Missouri
Inscription for Graves at Pea Ridge, Arkansas
The Fortitude of the North Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas
On the Men of Maine killed in the Victory of Baton Rouge, Louisiana
An Epitaph
Inscription for Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg
The Mound by the Lake
On the Slain at Chickamauga
An uninscribed Monument on one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness
On Sherman's Men Who fell in the Assault of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
On the Grave of a young Cavalry Officer killed in the Valley of Virginia
A Requiem for Soldiers lost in Ocean Transports
On a natural Monument in a field of Georgia
Commemorative of a Naval Victory
Presentation to the Authorities, by Privates, of Colors captured in Battles ending in the Surrender of Lee
The Returned Volunteer to his Rifle
Lee in the Capitol
A Meditation
JOHN MARR AND OTHER POEMS
By Herman Melville
With An Introductory Note By HENRY CHAPIN
MCMXXII
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
JOHN MARR AND OTHER SAILORS
BRIDEGROOM DICK
TOM DEADLIGHT
JACK ROY
SEA PIECES
THE HAGLETS
THE AEOLIAN HARP
TO THE MASTER OF THE METEOR
FAR OFF-SHORE
THE MAN-OF-WAR HAWK
THE FIGURE-HEAD
THE GOOD CRAFT SNOW BIRD
OLD COUNSEL
THE TUFT OF KELP
THE MALDIVE SHARK
TO NED
CROSSING THE TROPICS
THE BERG
THE ENVIABLE ISLES
PEBBLES
LINES TRACED UNDER AN IMAGE OF AMOR THREATENING
THE NIGHT MARCH
THE RAVAGED VILLA
THE NEW ZEALOT TO THE SUN
MONODY
LONE FOUNTS
THE BENCH OF BOORS
ART
THE ENTHUSIAST
SHELLEY'S VISION
THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS
THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES
HERBA SANTA
OFF CAPE COLONNA
THE APPARITION
SUPPLEMENT
THE PORTENT
FROM THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS
THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA
BALL'S BLUFF
THE STONE FLEET
THE TEMERAIRE
MALVERN HILL
STONEWALL JACKSON
THE HOUSE-TOP
CHATTANOOGA
ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A CORPS COMMANDER
THE SWAMP ANGEL
SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK
IN THE PRISON PEN
THE COLLEGE COLONEL
THE MARTYR
REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH
AURORA BOREALIS
THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER
ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS
AMERICA
INSCRIPTION
THE FORTITUDE OF THE NORTH
THE MOUND BY THE LAKE
ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA
AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT
ON THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER
COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY
WE FISH
INVOCATION
DIRGE
MARLENA
PIPE SONG
SONG OF YOOMY
GOLD
THE LAND OF LOVE
DIRGE
EPILOGUE
THE PIAZZA TALES
By Herman Melville
1856
CONTENTS
Contents
THE PIAZZA
BARTLEBY
BENITO CERENO
THE LIGHTNING-ROD MAN
THE ENCANTADAS
THE BELL-TOWER
Notes
THE APPLE-TREE TABLE AND OTHER SKETCHES
By Herman Melville
CONTENTS
THE APPLE-TREE TABLE
HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES
JIMMY ROSE
I AND MY CHIMNEY
THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS
COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!
THE FIDDLER
POOR MAN’S PUDDING AND RICH MAN’S CRUMBS
THE HAPPY FAILURE
THE ’GEES