Herman Melville: 398 books

Dieses eBook: "Abenteuer in der Südsee: Taipi + Omoo" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Zur Inhalt: Von dem Walfänger "Dolly" desertiert der Ich-Erzähler "Tom" gemeinsam mit einem Kameraden...

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority...

* Book : Typee * Biography * Bibliography Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard...

Al escribir Moby Dick, Melville creó para su uso particular un estilo fundado en el de los escritores del siglo XVII. En sus mejores momentos produce impresión y posee fuerza poética. Este autor tenía un verdadero sentido del ritmo, y el equilibrio de sus frases es excelente. Le gustaba la frase...

"–Você poderia me contar qualquer coisa a seu respeito?' –Acho melhor não." Repetida mais de 20 vezes, a frase "Acho melhor não" é uma espécie de leitmotiv, ou fio condutor, da obra-prima de Melville. A história é contada pelo sócio de um escritório de advocacia de...

This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This...

Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee, both fictional yet highly autobiographical. The narrator ships on a whaling vessel to Tahiti, where the crew mutinies and are imprisoned. The narrative is full of his observations of the Tahitian customs and way of life. Omoo is based on Melville's experiences in the Society Islands.

Melville savait-il, écrivant Bartleby, l’immense destin de son copiste ? «Je préférerais ne pas.» Et voici qu'un monde s'écroule. Ou bien : n’est-ce pas notre propre histoire, mais notre histoire tout entière, celle des grandes villes dont Manhattan est l’emblème, celle...

“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and...

With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann. 'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool' In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of...

Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction work (while featuring fictional narrators, his previous novels were heavily autobiographical). It details (much like Typee and Omoo) the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Unlike the first two, however,...

Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly suggestive...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!’ It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero – the ‘Handsome Sailor’ – to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour,...

Melville fantastically entertaining in a humorous vein. Melville anticipates the destructive solipsism modernity brought with its never-ceasing explorations into the self. To seek treasures from what affords life is to hollow out the soul until one is convinced no soul exists. Guard your chimney.