Melville: 568 books

Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking...

In our dealings with the brute creation, it cannot be too much insisted on that mutual confidence is only to be established by mutual good-will. The perceptions of the beast must be raised to their highest standard, and there is no such enemy to intelligence as fear. Reward should be as the daily...

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 a rain,...

A tale of mountain men and cowboys, romance and intrigue.  A Western that is sure to capture your wildest imagination.  

A book that explores the desire to fly, to be recognized, to be a hero, to be loved, to be independent and to experience great adventures. Billy Jo, is a farm boy in Virginia who is changed into a dinosaur bird when, on a dare, he jumps from the roof of the tree-house that he and his friend built high...

There is always magic and adventure in a day spent with Grandma BallyHuHu.   When Boone finds a mystical coin hidden inside Grandma BallyHuHu’s treasure chest, he suddenly finds himself on board an ancient ship and discovers the real hidden treasures lie within his imagination as he voyages at sea with pirates.

Adventure novel that narrates the journey of the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the Captain Ahab, hunting for whales and sperm whales, and in particular the enormous white whale Moby Dick.

Romanzo di avventura che narra il viaggio della baleniera Pequod, comandata dal capitano Achab, a caccia di capodogli e balene, e in particolare della enorme balena bianca Moby Dick. Libro in lingua originale inglese con traduzione in italiano. Adventure novel that tells the journey of a whaling...

An adventure story based on the idea of the author being held captive on the island of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas, during the mid 1850s.

A story by the author of Moby Dick, about the American Revolution. Israel Potter is a humble farmer, but joins the revolutionary army and sees action immediately at Bunker Hill. Through circumstance he comes into contact with Benjamin Frankin, King George III and Washington.

This is the saga of Pierre Glendinning, the upstate New York teenager who inherits a small fortune. However, disaster and tragedy lurk close by.

A short story about working on Wall Street in the 1850s. Bartleby is employed in the office of a Manhattan lawyer. At first it seems like a match made in heaven, but the relationship soon deteriorates to the point where the office has to be moved.

Volume One of the dramatic saga of the Lorimer Family The Lorimers are one of the richest and most powerful Bristol families... When Margaret Lorimer, daughter of the autocratic chairman of Lorimer's Bank, asks her father if she can marry a comparatively humble young Scot, he does not...