Title: Tales, Poems, and Other Writings
Description: Starting out. Fragments from a writing desk, No. 2 ; Versions of Typee: Typee, chapter 14 --
The art of telling the truth. Letters ; Hawthorne and his mosses --
Tales and sketches. [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) ; Cock-a-doodle-doo! ; From The encantadas: The Chola widow ; The two temples ; The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids ; The bell-tower ; Benito Cereno ; The 'gees ; I and my chimney ; The piazza --
Statues in Rome and poems by Herman Melville. Statues in Rome ; Poems by Herman Melville --
From Battle-pieces. Supplement --
From Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land --
Prose & poem: John Marr, and others. From John Marr and other sailors with some sea-pieces ; From The Burgundy club ; Rammon and "The enviable isles" ; Under the rose --
Billy Budd. [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd) ; Versions of Billy: the ur-Billy Budd ; Versions of "art" --
From Weeds and wildings, chiefly: with a rose or two. Rip van Winkle's lilac ; Nine Rose poems.
Subjects: Fiction, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, literature, classics, Sailors, Ship captains, Executions and executioners, Impressment, Sea stories, adult readers, Study and teaching, Historical Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Poetry (poetic works by one author), American War poetry, Whaling, Poetry, American Short stories, Whaling ships, History
Places: New York, Wall Street
People: Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Billy Budd, Edward Fairfax Vere, John Claggart, John Marr