Melville: 568 books

In developing the novella, Melville drew almost exclusively on the memoir of the real Captain Amasa Delano, whom Melville depicts as the main protagonist and focal character. Delano recounts how in 1805, his vessel Perseverance encountered the Spanish Tryal (not to be confused with the 17th-century...

Katerfelto George Whyte-Melville, scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet (1821-1878) This ebook presents «Katerfelto», from George Whyte-Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...

Die mittelalterlichen Klöster faszinieren uns als ein Gegenpol zum Getriebe der „Welt“. Zugleich ist ihre Geschichte bis heute von zahllosen Legenden umrankt. Gert Melville bietet in seinem eindrucksvollen Überblick einen neuen, frischen Blick auf die Geschichte der Klöster und Orden und macht...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning...

"The Duchess of York wished to have the portraits of the most beautiful women at Court," Anthony Hamilton wrote in the Memoirs of Count Grammont. "Lely painted them, and employed all his art in the execution. He could not have had more alluring sitters. Every portrait is a masterpiece." The...

Moby Dick. Collana "I grandi classici a fumetti". Graphic Novel interamente illustrate a colori. Riadattamento del celebre romanzo di Herman Melville. Le gelide acque dei mari del nord celano una creatura che è già una leggenda per tutti i marinai. Il temibile leviatano bianco, la chimera...

Bartleby, el escribiente es una de las narraciones más originales y conmovedoras de la historia de la literatura. Melville escribió este relato a mediados del siglo xix, pero por él no parece haber pasado el tiempo. Nos cuenta la historia de un peculiar copista que trabaja en una oficina de Wall...

El encarnizado enfrentamiento entre el capitán Ahab y Moby Dick se ha convertido con el paso de los años en un lugar común de la literatura universal. La obra magna de Herman Melville narra el modo en el que una ballena blanca, símbolo de la obsesión autodestructiva, arrastra con hilos invisibles...

Bartleby [Bartleby, l'escrivent] és una de les narracions més originals i commovedores de la història de la literatura. Melville va escriure aquest relat a mitjan segle XIX, però no sembla pas que els anys hagin passat per damunt seu. Ens conta la història d'un peculiar copista que treballa en...

This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de:...

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day. The Scarlet Letter...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell...

Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea—and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled...

This carefully crafted ebook: “Moby-Dick (Unabridged) + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: first published in 1851, considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure...