Herman Melville: 398 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening...

Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual...

Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Inspired by true events,...

I and My Chimney by Herman Melville libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

Moby Dick di Herman Melville, capolavoro della letteratura mondiale, meravigliosa storia di mare e d'avventura, è anche un complesso studio del conflitto tra l'uomo e le imperscrutabili forze naturali che lo sovrastano. Il suo ascolto provoca un forte senso di disorientamento, analogo al sentirsi...

"Os americanos" une nomes ilustres da literatura dos Estados Unidos. Enquanto se construía como nação, ao longo do "extenso século XIX", para parafrasear Eric Hobsbawn em relação ao "curto século XX" (que teria começado de fato apenas em 1914, na Primeira Guerra...

Volume 1 of 2 of Herman Melville's novel about a deserter from a ship who travels around the south Pacific islands.

BENITO CERENO (Edition Intégrale - Version Entièrement Illustrée) * Inclus une courte biographie d'Herman Melville  Descriptif : En 1799, pour faire le plein d'eau, le navire du capitaine Amaso Delano, le Délices du célibataire, mouille dans une petite île au sud du Chili . Arrive sur...

Publicado anonimamente em 1853, Bartleby, o escriturário: uma história de Wall Street revela o estilo bem-humorado e por vezes sombrio de Herman Melville (1819-1891). Trata-se de uma história surpreendente pela simplicidade e aterradora pelo realismo. O narrador, um bem-sucedido advogado, contrata...

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white...

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in...

Moby Dick di Herman Melville, capolavoro della letteratura mondiale, meravigliosa storia di mare e d'avventura, è anche un complesso studio del conflitto tra l'uomo e le imperscrutabili forze naturali che lo sovrastano. Il suo ascolto provoca un forte senso di disorientamento, analogo al sentirsi...

Von dem Walfänger Dolly desertiert der Ich-Erzähler Tom gemeinsam mit einem Kameraden namens Toby während eines Zwischenhaltes in der Bucht der Marquesas-Insel Nukuhiva. Die beiden suchen Zuflucht bei einem der ansässigen Insulaner-Stämme, den Typee, in einem abgelegenen Tal der Insel. Dort angekommen,...

"Bartleby" (titre original : "Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street") est une nouvelle de Herman Melville (l'auteur de "Moby Dick") parue une première fois en 1853 dans le "Putnam's Monthly Magazine" et reprise en 1856 dans le recueil "Les Contes...