Melville: 568 books

Das Werk "Kikeriki" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von Herman Melville, erstmals 1853 veröffentlicht. Der Originaltitel lautet "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Nobel Cock Beneventano". Herman Melville, geboren als Herman Melvill (* 1. August 1819 in New York City, New York;...

Als man Herman Melville nach langer Vergessenheit um 1920 wiederentdeckte, wurde er auf einen Schlag zu einem der großen Autoren der Weltliteratur. >Moby-Dick< mutet als frühe Vorwegnahme des postmodernen Romans an. Von seiner Erzählung >Bartleby< führt eine direkte Linie zu Kafka;...

Das Werk "Die Encantadas" ist eine Novelle von Herman Melville, erstmals 1854 veröffentlicht. Herman Melville, geboren als Herman Melvill (* 1. August 1819 in New York City, New York; † 28. September 1891 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayist. Melvilles "Moby-Dick" gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Romane der Weltliteratur.

Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance.  Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres.  This edition of Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! includes a table of contents. 

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master...

First published as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale in 1851, Herman Melville’s epic tale about obsession and greed shows no signs of losing popularity in the digital age. The book begins as a straightforward narrative in realistic prose. After the first fifteen chapters, it becomes a complex combination...

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,...

Moby Dick Herman Melville, american novelist, poet, and writer of short stories (1819-1891) This ebook presents «Moby Dick », from Herman Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02-...

John Marr and Other Poems Herman Melville, american novelist, poet, and writer of short stories (1819-1891) This ebook presents «John Marr and Other Poems», from Herman Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...

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...

"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches",...

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,...

When the narrator decides to build a piazza at his new country home, his neighbours are amused when he decides to construct it on the north-facing side of his property. But the narrator is content, and when his view provides a glimpse of silver gleaming in the distance, he is convinced that his piazza...