Herman Melville's Lifetime Earnings

First Posted: 07/19/11 01:43 PM ET Updated: 09/18/11 06:12 AM ET

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Note: This chart does not represent Melville’s entire literary production. It does not list earnings for the magazine articles or for Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, and The Confidence-Man, for which surviving records are incomplete; nor does it give figures for the volumes of poetry that were published at private expense.

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