Melville: 568 books

"J'aimerais mieux pas" répond invariablement Bartleby, simple scribe dans un bureau de Wall Street, quand on lui demande de faire quelque chose. L'étrange et inquiétante obstination qu'il met à refuser de travailler et même à sortir de l'étude reste incompréhensible au notaire...

İÇİNDEKİLER Jack London- Vahşetin Çağrısı Herman Melville- Moby Dick Lev Tolstoy- İnsan Ne İle Yaşar Fyodor Dostoyevski- Yeraltından Notlar Charles Dickens- İki Şehrin Hikayesi

Publicado anonimamente em 1853, Bartleby, o escriturário: uma história de Wall Street revela o estilo bem-humorado e por vezes sombrio de Herman Melville (1819-1891). Trata-se de uma história surpreendente pela simplicidade e aterradora pelo realismo. O narrador, um bem-sucedido advogado, contrata...

With more than 140 countries in the world now using international financial reporting standards (IFRS® Standards), knowledge of the standards issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB®) is vital to students’ success in financial accounting. Melville’s International Financial...

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white...

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville, published by Dix & Edwards in the United States in May 1856 and in Britain in June. Except for the newly written title story, "The Piazza," all of the stories had appeared in Putnam's Monthly in...

Of the eight papers printed here, “Some Eighteenth-Century Men About Town,” “A Forgotten Satirist: ‘Peter Pindar’,” “Sterne’s Eliza,” and “William Beckford, of Fonthill Abbey,” have appeared in the Fortnightly Review; “Charles James Fox” appeared in the Monthly Review, “Exquisites...

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...

When the train crept out of Euston into the wet night the Marchesa Soderrelli sat for a considerable time quite motionless in the corner of her compartment. The lights, straggling northward out of London, presently vanished. The hum and banging of passing engines ceased. The darkness, attended by...

Von dem Walfänger Dolly desertiert der Ich-Erzähler Tom gemeinsam mit einem Kameraden namens Toby während eines Zwischenhaltes in der Bucht der Marquesas-Insel Nukuhiva. Die beiden suchen Zuflucht bei einem der ansässigen Insulaner-Stämme, den Typee, in einem abgelegenen Tal der Insel. Dort angekommen,...

Uma irônica e literária análise da natureza humana, do mesmo autor de Moby Dick. A narrativa de Melville – um dos precursores do absurdo na literatura – é curta, rica e múltipla; leitura para se perder em interpretações. O personagem título é um jovem escrivão judicial que, cansado do...

"Bartleby" (titre original : "Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street") est une nouvelle de Herman Melville (l'auteur de "Moby Dick") parue une première fois en 1853 dans le "Putnam's Monthly Magazine" et reprise en 1856 dans le recueil "Les Contes...

En 1799, au large des côtes du Chili, un bateau américain conduit par le capitaine Delano croise un bateau espagnol en piteux état, le San Dominick. Delano embarque à son bord pour proposer son aide. La plupart des officiers du bateau espagnol a disparu. Des esclaves noirs sont installés partout...

Volume One of the griping Victorian family saga. Midge and Gordon Hardie were the children of a respected Oxford wine merchant, but no matter how charming his upper-crust customers were, the Hardies remained no more than prosperous tradespeople. Midge wanted more. She wanted the rewards...