HERMAN MELVILLE-4

Free will and predestination, man’s pursuit of elusive truth, and the nature of evil and knowledge are some of the important themes in Moby Dick.

Later work (1852 – 1856) included Pierre, a historical novel, Israel Potter, Piazza Tales, a collection of short stories and in 1856, The Confidence Man, and a satirical novel. At the time of his death he lift unpublished his last long work of fiction, Billy Budd. This masterly novelette was not printed until 1924, when a new generation had rediscovered Melville and had begun, to give him overdue recognition as a great writer of philosophical fiction.