Melville: 568 books

Book cover of Bartleby, el escribiente

Bartleby, el escribiente

Una historia de Wall Street

by Herman Melville
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 20, 2019

Conmemoramos el bicentenario del nacimiento de Melville con la edición de una de sus obras más célebres que incluye, además, una introducción de Enrique Vila-Matas. «Preferiría no hacerlo -repetí yo como si fuera su eco, levantándome muy alterado y cruzando la habitación de una zancada-....
Book cover of Billy Budd, Seemann

Billy Budd, Seemann

Die Geschichte eines jungen Matrosen

by Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2017

Billy Budd ist der letzte Roman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Herman Melville (1819-1891). Verfasst zwischen 1886 und 1891, blieb er lange Zeit verschollen und erst 1924 wiederentdeckt und veröffentlicht. Die Handlung spielt auf dem englischen Kriegsschiff Indomitable 1797, also zu Beginn der...
Book cover of OMU. Erlebnisse in der Südsee
by Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2017

Das Werk "OMU. Erlebnisse in der Südsee" ist ein Roman von Herman Melville, erstmals 1847 veröffentlicht. Der Originaltitel lautet "Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas". Herman Melville, geboren als Herman Melvill (* 1. August 1819 in New York City, New York; †...
Book cover of Bartleby the Scrivener and The Confidence Man (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Although most people do not think of Herman Melville as a particularly funny writer, his "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and The Confidence Man have kept readers laughing for a century and a half. "Bartleby" is a simultaneously...
Book cover of Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (Annotated)
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first work of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country" and...
Book cover of Contraband
by George Whyte-Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

Contraband George Whyte-Melville, scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet (1821-1878) This ebook presents «Contraband», from George Whyte-Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...
Book cover of Mardi: And A Voyage Thither VOL. I
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012

Herman Melville Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American...
Book cover of Mardi, and a Voyage Thither (Complete)
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014

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,...
Book cover of The Interpreter
by George Whyte-Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

The Interpreter George Whyte-Melville, scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet (1821-1878) This ebook presents «The Interpreter», from George Whyte-Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01-...
Book cover of Io e il mio camino
by Herman Melville
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2015

Una delle opere più gustose del grande letterato americano, che si ispira a un evento avvenuto nel 1850: Melville quell'anno si trasferisce in una grande fattoria a Pittsfield, Massachussets. È proprio lì che comincerà a scrivere il suo capolavoro più grande, 'Moby Dick'. In quella fattoria,...
Book cover of Moby Dick

Moby Dick

la balena bianca

by Herman Melville
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2018

... Melville si basa sulla sua esperienza personale per scrivere Moby Dick. Un capolavoro letterario per ogni età. Il Capitano Achab fa subito capire che sarà una spedizione insolita, tesa alla vendetta contro Moby Dick, la grande balena bianca che gli aveva divorato la gamba. Al primo avvistamento...
Book cover of L'uomo di fiducia
by Herman Melville
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 15, 2014

È l’1 aprile a bordo del Fidele, un battello che naviga in direzione New Orleans lungo il corso del Mississippi. Mentre commercianti, dame, agenti di cambio, ambulanti, studenti, avvocati e vecchi avari svolgono i propri affari e chiacchierano passeggiando nei saloni e sul ponte, nella folla si...
Book cover of Pierre o delle Ambiguità
by Herman Melville
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Questo è il romanzo che ha stroncato la carriera di Herman Melville. Pubblicato nel 1852, poco dopo Moby Dick, è il libro, forse, che solo il capitano Achab avrebbe potuto scrivere. Oceanico, involuto, imperfetto, “il romanzo più folle mai scritto”, Pierre, o delle ambiguità mette in scena...
Book cover of Bartleby lo Scrivano
by Herman Melville
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Bartleby lo scrivano: una storia di Wall Street (titolo originale Bartleby the Scrivener) è un racconto di Herman Melville. Lo scritto fu, la prima volta, pubblicato anonimo, in due parti, sulla rivista Putnam's Magazine nel 1853, e fu poi incluso nella raccolta The Piazza Tales nel 1856 con...
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