For 10 points, name this author of "Bartleby the Scrivener," Billy Budd, and Moby Dick.
One of his title characters has a vision of Enceladus' attack on the Mount of Titans before he drinks poison with his sister Isabel Banford. In another of his novels, Charlie Noble rejects Frank's loan, and the title character pretends to be an employee of the Seminole Widow, Orphan Society, and a beggar named Black Guinea; those works are Pierre; or the Ambiguities and The Confidence Man. One of his characters irritates Nipper and Ginger Nut, formerly worked at the Dead Letters Office, and uses the refrain "I would prefer not to," while another quarrels with Claggart aboard the Indomitable. For 10 points, name this author of "Bartleby the Scrivener," Billy Budd, and Moby Dick.
One of his title characters has a vision of Enceladus' attack on the Mount of Titans before he drinks poison with his sister Isabel Banford.
Herman Melville