Herman Melville

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New Books Newsletter For You Sunday August 1, 2010 Happy Independence Day to our American readers! Take advantage of the long weekend to start a new book from the ArcaMax Book Club -- it also has dozens of books commonly assigned as summer reading, so it's a great way to help your kids get ready for the new school year. For the newest and hottest summer reads, check out BookDaily.com. This Week's Featured Books Featured Author: Herman Melville Featured Book and Quizzes This Week's Birthdays This Week's Featured Books Fiction - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens Non Fiction - Great Britain and Her Queen, Anne E. Keeling - Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1, Thomas Jefferson - De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries (English), Julius Caesar Short Stories - Tales from Two Hemispheres, Hjalmar Hjorth Boysen - Greek and Roman Ghost Stories, Lacy Collison-Morley - Old Peter's Russian Tales, Arthur Ransome Poetry - Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde - The Iliad (translated by Samuel Butler), Homer - Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, C.S. Lewis Plays - School for Scandal, Richard Sheridan - Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov - The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare Sci Fi - When the World Shook, H. Rider Haggard - Michael Strogoff, Jules Verne - At the Earth's Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs Philosophy - The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon - Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche - Erewhon Revisited, Samuel Butler Religion - The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith - Bible - Book 15: 1 Ezra, Challoner Revision - Bible - Book 26: Ecclesiasticus, Challoner Revision Biography - The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Volume 1, Elizabeth Gaskell - Life of Robert Browning, William Sharp - Chaucer's Official Life, James Root Hulbert Herman Melville (Aug. 1, 1819 - Sept. 28, 1891) Herman Melville was born in New York, and in his early adulthood served as a cabin boy on a voyage to London. Although he wrote little of this and other journeys by boat, his novel "Moby-Dick" is believed to contain much that is autobiographical. In the late 1850s, he began lecturing on his South Seas journeys. He made very little money from his written works during his lifetime, but his writings were "rediscovered" after his death and have become classics. Featured book by Herman Melville: Moby Dick, or, the Whale This week's quizzes: The Wizard of Oz Famous Pseudonyms Arthurian Legends This Week's Birthdays P.B. Shelley -- August 4, 1792 Revolutionary English poet who challenged English politics in his work. Guy de Maupassant -- August 5, 1850 Author considered by many to be the greatest French short story writer. Read The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy De Maupassant at BookDaily. Alfred Tennyson -- August 6, 1809 English writer considered to be the foremost poet of the Victorian age. Advertisement Free* $1,000 Walmart Gift Card Act Now And Get Yours... Use it any way you want... * Get that new HDTV you've been drooling over * Spruce up the House, OR * Get those appliances you've been putting off: Click here for details... *Participation Required.	Quick Clicks Why pay over $90 a month for Cable or Sat.TV services? Download A TV! Free Tasters Choice Coffee Eliminate Windows PC Errors Improve PC's System Speed by Up to 70%
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