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Herman Melville

Herman Melville's catalog features a diverse array of 19 works, showcasing a strong emphasis on contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Dominated by the enemies to lovers trope, his stories often explore the complexities of relationships through various lenses, including friends to lovers and forbidden love scenarios. The recurring theme of forbidden workplace romance adds an intriguing layer to his narratives, creating tension and excitement. While the heat level remains unclassified, the combination of these elements suggests a compelling blend of passion and conflict, engaging readers with dynamic character interactions and emotional stakes. Melville's publishing timeline spans from 1851 to 2015, reflecting a long-standing engagement with romance across different eras.

19 books on the shelf

The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Антон Павлович Чехов, Ann Charters, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Jorge Luis Borges, Chinua Achebe, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Annie Proulx, Gabriel García Márquez, Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, Richard Wright, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, 村上春樹, Alice Walker, John Steinbeck, Albert Camus, Ambrose Bierce, Vladimir Nabokov, Shirley Jackson, James Joyce, Alice Munro
Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Louisa May Alcott
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition
Salman Rushdie, William Faulkner, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Conner, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin, Jon C. Stott, Herman Melville, Rick Bowers, Rohinton Mistry, Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond E. Jones, Carol Shields, Alice Walker, James Joyce, Alice Munro
Great Conversations 2
Great Conversations 2
Raymond Carver, Frank O'Connor, Friedrich A. Hayek, René Descartes, Herman Melville, Anonymous, Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Daniel Born, Nadine Gordimer, John Dunne, Николай Васильевич Гоголь, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, John Rawls, J. M. Synge, Mike Levine, Max Planck
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition
Антон Павлович Чехов, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin, Gabriel García Márquez, Richard Bausch, Herman Melville, Richard Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, John Steinbeck, R. V. Cassill, Ambrose Bierce, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Alice Munro
Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway
Great American Short Stories from Hawthorne to Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Corinne Demas, Ambrose Bierce
The American Short Story [59 stories]
The American Short Story [59 stories]
William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, Jack London, Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Thomas K. Parkes, Ambrose Bierce, Shirley Jackson
Short Stories
Short Stories
William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Henry James, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Sarah Orne Jewett, John Steinbeck, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Fitz-James O'Brien
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Антон Павлович Чехов, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip Roth, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Melville, Richard Wright, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Adams, Charles H. Bohner, Alice Walker, John Steinbeck, Ambrose Bierce, Vladimir Nabokov, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Alice Munro
Fiction 100
Fiction 100
William Faulkner, James H. Pickering, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Wolfe, Jack London, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Melville, Richard Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, Alice Walker, John Steinbeck, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Alice Munro
Literature--second edition
Literature--second edition
Антон Павлович Чехов, William Faulkner, James H. Pickering, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Gabriel García Márquez, Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, Richard Wright, Jeffrey D. Hoeper, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, Alice Munro
Great American Short Stories [48 stories]
Great American Short Stories [48 stories]
William Faulkner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, John Steinbeck, Ambrose Bierce
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
Антон Павлович Чехов, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip Roth, Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, Richard Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Flaubert, John Steinbeck, R. V. Cassill, Ambrose Bierce, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Shirley Jackson, Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
Donald A. Stauffer, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Americo Paredes, Stephen Vincent Benét, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, William Bartram, William Cullen Bryant, Robert Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kenneth Fearing, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Eberhart, Taylor, Edward, James Russell Lowell, Robert Frost, Michael Harper, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Buber, Claude McKay, Anne Bradstreet, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, William Stafford, William Bradford, Martin Luther King Jr., John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Langston Hughes, Robert Davis, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Luis Munoz Marin, Phyllis Wheatley, Stephen Crane, Amiri Baraka, James Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Dos Passos, E. B. White, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Abraham Lincoln, James Edwin Miller, Vachel Lindsay, George Santayana, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert O'Neill, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, Edith Wharton, Prudencio De Pereda, Randall Jarrell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, John Smith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Timrod, Ezra Pound, Theodore Dreiser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Wilson Pennington, Katherine Anne Porter, Mona Van Duyn, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Lowell, Washington Irving, John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams, Henry Dumas, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Edwards, Robert Creeley, T. S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Emily Dickinson, Howard Nemerov, Elinor Wylie, Spencer, Theodore, Ambrose Bierce, John Ciardi, Victor Hernández Cruz, Tennessee Williams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sidney Lanier, Countee Cullen, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Allen Tate, Art Buchwald, Jesse Stuart, Carson McCullers
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
Donald A. Stauffer, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Americo Paredes, Stephen Vincent Benét, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, William Bartram, William Cullen Bryant, Robert Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kenneth Fearing, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Eberhart, Taylor, Edward, James Russell Lowell, Robert Frost, Michael Harper, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Buber, Claude McKay, Anne Bradstreet, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, William Stafford, William Bradford, Martin Luther King Jr., John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Langston Hughes, Robert Davis, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Luis Munoz Marin, Phyllis Wheatley, Stephen Crane, Amiri Baraka, James Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Dos Passos, E. B. White, Archibald MacLeish, Carl Sandburg, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Abraham Lincoln, James Edwin Miller, Vachel Lindsay, George Santayana, Robert Earl Hayden, Robert O'Neill, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, Edith Wharton, Prudencio De Pereda, Randall Jarrell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, John Smith, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Timrod, Ezra Pound, Theodore Dreiser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Wilson Pennington, Katherine Anne Porter, Mona Van Duyn, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Lowell, Washington Irving, John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams, Henry Dumas, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Edwards, Robert Creeley, T. S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Emily Dickinson, Howard Nemerov, Elinor Wylie, Spencer, Theodore, Ambrose Bierce, John Ciardi, Victor Hernández Cruz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sidney Lanier, Countee Cullen, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Allen Tate, Art Buchwald, Jesse Stuart, Carson McCullers
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James., William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, J. Cochrane, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, James Cochrane, John Updike, Ring Lardner, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, James Cochrane, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote
Great American Short Stories
Great American Short Stories
William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Mary Stegner, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hortense Calisher, Stephen Crane, James Thurber, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Hamlin Garland, Bret Harte, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Horgan, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Wilbur Daniel Steele, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stegner, William March, Ambrose Bierce, Conrad Aiken, Mary (editor) Stegner
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Philip Morin Freneau, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Francis Wright, Lillian Hellman, William Saroyan, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Eugenia Collier, Louise Bogan, Adrienne Rich, W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore Roethke, Richard Wilbur, Leslie Silko, Vern Rutsala, Isaac Asimov, Henry David Thoreau, Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Stephen Vincent Benét, William Faulkner, W. H. Auden, Irwin Shaw, Tom Wolfe, Robinson Jeffers, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, William Cullen Bryant, Norman Cousins, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leonie Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Eberhart, Taylor, Edward, Sara Teasdale, Brad Schulberg, John Davenport, James Russell Lowell, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Robert Frost, Benjamin Franklin, Willa Cather, Morris Bishop, Claude McKay, Anne Bradstreet, Mark Twain, Eudora Welty, William Stafford, Dorothy Parker, William Bradford, Jonathan Edwards, Vannevar Bush, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Updike, Thomas Paine, Thornton Wilder, Conrad Richter, Mari Evans, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Kate Chopin, Jim Wayne Miller, David Wagoner, Satanta, Stephen Crane, William Byrd II, Amiri Baraka, May Swenson, James Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Thurber, Frederick Douglass, E. B. White, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Archibald MacLeish, Denise Levertov, Carl Sandburg, Maxine Kumin, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, James Edwin Miller, Vachel Lindsay, George Santayana, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, Edith Wharton, Randall Jarrell, Philip Hamburger, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, John Smith, Lorraine Hansberry, Patrick F. McManus, Cleveland Amory, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Esther Forbes, Henry Timrod, Ezra Pound, Bret Harte, Theodore Hornberger, Walter Blair, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clarence Day, Katherine Anne Porter, Abram Joseph Ryan, Paul Horgan, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Rodriguez, Mona Van Duyn, Robert E. Lee, Henry James, Paul Engle, E. J. Kahn, Edward Rowe Snow, Sherwood Anderson, David McCord, Robert Lowell, Lewis Thomas, Washington Irving, O. Henry, John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams, Jacques Barzun, Paul Farmer, Thomas Jefferson, Don Marquis, Jean Toomer, William Least Heat Moon, Richard Willard Armour, E. E. Cummings, Gary Soto, Sinclair Lewis, James Masao Mitsui, Sarah Orne Jewett, Amy Lowell, Margaret Fuller, John Greenleaf Whittier, James W. C. Pennington, Eugene O'Neill, T. S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Emily Dickinson, Howard Nemerov, James Baldwin, Elinor Wylie, Lawson Fusao Inada, Karl Jay Shapiro, Margaret Wasson, John N. Morris, Ambrose Bierce, Sarah Kemble Knight, N. Scott Momaday, Tennessee Williams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seattle Chief, Robert Anderson, Ralph Ellison, Sidney Lanier, Countee Cullen, Galway Kinnell, Sylvia Plath, Theresa Helburn, Conrad Aiken, Chief Joseph, Ernest Hemingway, Byrd, William, Ogden Nash, W. L. White, Frank C. Laubach, Douglas Southall Freeman, Phyllis McGinley, Marianne Moore, John Smith, Pearl S. Buck, Annie Dillard, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, George Washington, James Fenimore Cooper, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Kurt Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, Phillis Wheatley, Wallace Stevens, Jesse Stuart, Louisa May Alcott, Carson McCullers, Kerry M. Wood, Robert C. Pooley, Cotton Mather
Moby Dick
Moby Dick
Herman Melville