Melville: 568 books

Scritto probabilmente nel 1891, anno di morte dell'autore, ma pubblicato solo nel 1924, è l'affascinante storia di un marinaio e della nave su cui aveva navigato, 'l'Indomitable'. Ambientato all'epoca delle repressioni degli ammutinamenti che puntualmente si verificavano sulle navi inglesi durante...

Moby Dick di Herman Melville, capolavoro della letteratura mondiale, meravigliosa storia di mare e d'avventura, è anche un complesso studio del conflitto tra l'uomo e le imperscrutabili forze naturali che lo sovrastano. Il suo ascolto provoca un forte senso di disorientamento, analogo al sentirsi...

Dopo aver comprato una vecchia fattoria nel Massachusetts, un uomo desidera contemplare il paesaggio, ma la casa è sprovvista di una veranda. Scendendo a compromessi con se stesso, si accontenta di farne costruire solo una parte, sul lato nord. Una volta terminata, vi si accomoda ad ammirare la montagna...

Moby Dick (1851) segna un punto d'arrivo nella produzione di Melville: romanzo in cui l'indagine gnoseologica tocca profondità insondate, e la narrazione, nella sua varietà, raggiunge una fusione di stili quasi perfetta. A dare il titolo all'opera è la grande balena bianca, simbolo e somma di tutti i mostri che l'immaginazione ha posto agli inesplorati limiti della terra.

Sirene Devereaux came to town, looking for a man; but not just any man, she was looking for a vampire. This wasn't about finding love. She was in town to do a job. It was business, not pleasure. She had to hunt down one particular vampire and make his very existence a living hell. To hide her...

For most of her life, the only thing Arissa Petros has known is abuse. She is just 19 years old when, with the help of a friend, she runs away from her abuser. Wanting as much distance between the man who has hurt her and herself, she travels to another state working as a housekeeper for an elderly...

Flame is a pole dancer. She's beautiful and a redhead with the temper to match. She doesn't do relationships since they often end badly for her, especially her last one, which had been a disaster. She also has a secret. She can move things with her mind. Damien is tall, dark, handsome and a...

If you could have the man of your dreams would you go after him? That was the question Faith asked herself when a tall dark haired, sexy as sin vampire started coming to her in her dreams. Most would dismiss it as nothing more than that, just dreams; but not her. Faith was no ordinary young...

It's been almost a century since everything changed. Nearly a century since Francesca lost everyone and everything that night. Only one person knows, one man saw it all; her sire, her saviour. He pulled her back from death and the brink of insanity. Only one man truly knows her...

Sexually frustrated Grace was tired of dead end relationships, or men that were dead in the sack. Where were all the hot and sexy studs, instead of the duds? That was the question she asked her best friend, and housemate Mel, frequently. Then they saw the ad in the paper, Dial A Stud for all...

What do you do when nobody wants you…..? Harry was tired of being used, abused and taken for granted by men. Surely he deserved better than to be cast out like last night's leftovers? All his life he'd been treated like that. When he'd come out to his parents about being gay, they'd...

Gideon We are The Veiled Ones We possess abilities other vampires don't We've been hunted almost to extinction Rescued and brought to Australia We must learn to adapt in this strange modern world We need to blend in, but we are not safe They're determined...

Kane Marshall It all began with a cow. Okay, this is one of those chicken and egg moments. First there was the ogling. Then came the cow. One huge cow. I was only trying to save her. The woman. Not the cow. That ended in disaster. For me. Not...

Shay Vidal. . . Women call me the Sex God. Why? It's simple. When it comes to sex, I really am that good. It's not my ego talking. It's a fact. I get it screamed at me all the time. Men want to be like me. Women want to be with me. The thing is. . . It's all...