Melville: 568 books

Book cover of Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law–copyists or scriveners....
Book cover of A New Perspective on Poverty in the Caribbean: The Strength of a Participatory Approach
by Edited by Juliet Melville, Edited by Eleanor Wint
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014

A New Perspective on Poverty presents a new perspective on poverty in the Caribbean region using qualitative research methods, presented through poor people's own voices, the realities of their lives. It gives an indepth analysis using specialised software, of the extensive qualitative data generated...
Book cover of The Migration of Ghosts
by Pauline Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014

In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult. The reader meets Mrs Da Silva a 65-year-old matriarch of Carnival's Rebel War Band who wins the heart of a postman, and a widow who commemorates the death of her husband by winning a taverna's dance competition.
Book cover of Bartleby, el escribiente
by Herman Melville
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 2, 2018

Narra la historia un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street, Nueva York, quien, según sus propias palabras, "en la tranquilidad de un cómodo retiro, trabaja cómodamente con los títulos de propiedad de los hombres ricos, con hipotecas y obligaciones". Tiene...
Book cover of Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Unter dem finsteren Kapitän Ahab kreuzt eine gemischte Mannschaft rauer Walfänger auf ihrem unheimlichen Schiff über die vier Weltmeere. Sie jagen den weißen Wal, den die Seeleute Moby Dick nennen. Moby Dick hat dem Kapitän ein Bein vom Körper gerissen, und nun verfolgt dieser den weißen Wal mit...
Book cover of Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Walbreckers Klassiker für Kids

by Dirk Walbrecker, Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: January 12, 2013

Die Männer des Walfangschiffes kommen aus aller Herren Länder. Hier muss sich der junge Ismael bewähren und findet in einem der Harpuniere einen Freund. Kapitän Ahab ist besessen von der Jagd auf Moby Dick, den weißen Wal. Das dramatische und spannende Geschehen treibt seinem Höhepunkt entgegen,...
Book cover of Endloser Sommer

Endloser Sommer

Ein literarischer Surftrip

by Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Jack London
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2015

Von den Mythen der Ureinwohner Hawaiis bis zur ersten Beschreibung des Wellenreitens durch den Seefahrer Captain Cook. Von den Briefen des Draufgängers Mark Twain, in denen er seine ersten Surfversuche beschreibt, bis zu der Hymne, die Jack London auf diesen "königlichen Sport" anstimmt....
Book cover of Bartleby der Schreiber
by Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: November 8, 2011

«Ich möchte lieber nicht.» Als Schreiber in einer New Yorker Kanzlei ist Bartleby eigentlich der ideale Angestellte: hingebungsvoll fleißig, rechtschaffen und still. Doch leise und sanftmütig spricht er auch, immer wieder, den einen Satz, der seinen Vorgesetzten in die Verzweiflung treibt. Bartleby...
Book cover of Moby Dick

Moby Dick

German edition

by Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2018

Die obsessive Suche von Ahab, Kapitän des Walfangschiffs Pequod, nach Rache an Moby Dick, dem weißen Wal, der auf der vorherigen Schifffahrt von Ahabs Bein am Knie abgebissen hatte. Die Basis für die Arbeit ist Melvilles 1841 Walfangfahrt an Bord der Acushnet. Der Roman greift auch Walfangliteratur und literarische Inspirationen wie Shakespeare und die Bibel auf.
Book cover of Market Harborough and Inside the Bar
by George John Whyte-Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good...
Book cover of M. or N. "Similia Similibus Curantur"
by George John Whyte-Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

A wild wet night in the Channel, the white waves leaping, lashing, and tumbling together in that confusion of troubled waters, which nautical men call a "cross-sea." A dreary, dismal night on Calais sands: faint moonshine struggling through a low driving scud, the harbour-lights quenched...
Book cover of Moby Dick: Hinkler Illustrated Classics
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Captain Ahab swears bloody revenge when Moby Dick, a giant whale, snatches his leg from beneath him. The dismasted skipper sets off to hunt down the beast, only to find the extraordinary whale hunting him. Obsessed with destroying the creature, Ahab risks his boat and crew, his sanity and a terrifying...
Book cover of Benito Cereno

Benito Cereno

Short Story

by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014

When approached at sea by the slaver San Dominick, Captain Amasa Delano of the Bachelor’s Delight is struck by the Spanish ship’s dilapidated condition, her peculiar captain—Benito Cereno—and the strange atmosphere among the white crew and black slaves. While Delano accepts Cereno’s explanation...
Book cover of Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008

Moby Dick in half the time Moby Dick is the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the eccentric crew of a whaling ship, The Pequod. The ship is on its last voyage...
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