Melville: 568 books
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—*Bartleby the Scrivener *is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever....
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This ebook comprises the complete writings of Herman Melville. The collection is sorted chronologically by book publication. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. The dates of first publication are noted. Typee: A Romance...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the final work of American author Herman Melville (1819-1891), discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and published in Raymond Weaver's 1924 edition of "The Collected Works of Melville." The emergence of what some consider to be Melville's masterpiece sparked...
The Essential H. Melville - 9 Books in One Volume
Including Moby-Dick, D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick, Typee, The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower & The Confidence-Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious,...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Moby Dick has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written.
It reveals the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of a true literary colossus, Herman Melville.
Published in hundreds of editions and translated...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Despite the early success of his tales of adventure in the South Seas, Herman Melville (1819–1891) suffered a reversal of fortunes with the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick. The great epic, now recognized as a masterpiece, was scorned by an uncomprehending nineteenth-century audience. Melville's preoccupation...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable...
Taïpi
Récit des îles Marquises
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Herman Melville, du haut de ses vingt-cinq ans, nous raconte la rencontre avec un peuple étonnant du Pacifique
Nuku-Hiva, une île de l'archipel des Marquises, Pacifique. Deux tribus y vivent, l'une douce et pacifique, l'autre cannibale. Après avoir fui le navire baleinier, deux fugitifs...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American sailor, novelist, writer of short stories, and poet.
“The Piazza Tales” (1856) is the collection of short stories by Herman Melville, included six short pieces. Initially, the collection should be titled "Benito Cereno" and other stories...
Clarel by Herman Melville
A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War, usually referred to as White-Jacket, is an 1850 novel by Herman Melville first published in England on January 23 by Richard Bentley and in the U.S. on March 21 by Harper & Brothers. Based on Melville's experiences as a common seaman aboard the frigate...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Melville's first and second books. According to Wikipedia: "Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva...
Benito Cereno
American Short Stories for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The audio edition of Herman Melville’s masterwork Benito Cereno. Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville. It was first serialized in Putnam's Monthly in 1855 and later included a slightly revised version in his collection The Piazza Tales (1856). In developing the novella,...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In this short history of the impressment and hanging of...