Herman Melville: 398 books

Moby Dick – Der Kampf zwischen Wal und Mensch, mehr noch aber zwischen Vernunft und Wahn. Ein Walfänger hat einem weißen Wal Rache geschworen, nun zieht er seine gesamte Mannschaft hinein in seinen irrsinnigen Feldzug. Bearbeitete Neuausgabe der deutschen Erstübersetzung, mit Erläuterungen zur Seefahrersprache.

The classic tale of existential despair A Wall Street lawyer specializing in bonds and mortgages hires a respectable young man to copy legal documents by hand. At first, the new scrivener approaches his duties with a calm efficiency. Then comes the day when his response to a new assignment...

What grand irregular thunder, thought I, standing on my hearth-stone among the Acroceraunian hills, as the scattered bolts boomed overhead, and crashed down among the valleys, every bolt followed by zigzag irradiations, and swift slants of sharp rain, which audibly rang, like a charge of spear-points,...

Contents John Marr and other poems -- Sea pieces -- Poems from Timoleon -- Supplement -- Poems from Battle pieces -- Poems from Mardi -- Poems from Clarel.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

On Thursday added ground was won, A long bold steep: we near the Den. Later the foe came shouting down In sortie, which was quelled; and then We stormed them on their left. A chilly change in the afternoon; The sky, late clear, is now bereft Of sun. Last night the ground froze hard-- Rings to the...

An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas. "Sketch First" is...

En 1799, el capitán Amasa Delano ancló en la bahía de una isla desierta del litoral chileno. A la mañana siguiente apareció en el lugar un misterioso navío, el Santo Domingo. Las maniobras de éste hicieron sopechar que se trataba de un barco en apuros, con lo que ordenó que se preparara un...

El capitán Ahab, apoyado sobre su pierna fabricada con una mandíbula de cachalote, empuja a su tripulación del Pequod al desastre en su obsesión por acabar con la ballena blanca, con Moby Dick; esa reencarnación del mal que mutiló su cuerpo y su alma para siempre. Una novela de aventuras imprescindible,...

Este libro puede ser peligroso. Tras el correr de sus páginas, del entrecruzado de sus signos, usted no será la misma persona. Hay lecturas, que como surcos en la tierra, marcan; adentrarse en el mundo de Bartleby, este personaje que vive en su oficina, silencioso, aislado y sin pasado; deja sin duda huellas, da o resta sentido al cotidiano.

Übersetzt Von Wilhelm Strüver Die Fahrt beginnt am Weihnachtstag. Kapitän Ahab lässt sich anfangs nicht an Deck blicken. Erst auf offener See kommt er aus seiner Kabine und erklärt der Mannschaft in pathetischen Worten das wahre Ziel der Fahrt: Er will Moby Dick, den weißen Wal, der ihm das...

It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this. When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru—her last harbour in the Pacific—I found myself without a grego, or sailor's surtout; and as, toward...

Contents The Piazza -- Bartleby -- Benito Cereno -- The Lightning-Rod Man -- The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles -- The Bell-Tower.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Israel Potter (1855) examines the life of an ordinary patriot, a common man manipulated by powerful forces and utterly forgotten among the lists of American Revolutionary War heroes. His story is filled with the twists...