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

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- Authors: [Herman Melville](https://www.bookquiver.com/herman-melville)
- Publisher: library_of_america
- ISBN: 978-09-4045-024-0
- Pages: 1478
- Published: 1985-04-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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...