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Herman Melville (1819-91) was an American novelist, short-story writer, lecturer, and poet. Melville worked as a bank clerk, a clerk in a cap and fur store, a teacher, a sailor, an author, a farmer, and finally as a customs inspector. Besides his masterpiece, Moby-Dick, his books include Omoo (the sequel to Typee), The Confidence-Man, White-Jacket, Pierre, and The Piazza Tales. Melville died in obscurity at the age of seventy-twoMelville, Herman is the author of 'Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life' with ISBN 9780451525185 and ISBN 0451525183.
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