The Portable Melville
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Two Complete Novels - Typee and [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd)
Self-contained excerpts of four other novels
Stories, including "[Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)"
Selections from travel journals
Letters, poems, marginalia, and other writings specially arranged with editiorial comments that tell the story of Herman Melville's life in relation to his work.
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