Melville: 568 books

Contents John Marr and other poems -- Sea pieces -- Poems from Timoleon -- Supplement -- Poems from Battle pieces -- Poems from Mardi -- Poems from Clarel.

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On Thursday added ground was won, A long bold steep: we near the Den. Later the foe came shouting down In sortie, which was quelled; and then We stormed them on their left. A chilly change in the afternoon; The sky, late clear, is now bereft Of sun. Last night the ground froze hard-- Rings to the...

An anonymous narrator unites the ten disparate "Sketches", each of which begin with a few lines of poetry, mostly taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. All of the stories are replete with symbolism reinforcing the cruelty of life on the Encantadas. "Sketch First" is...

En 1799, el capitán Amasa Delano ancló en la bahía de una isla desierta del litoral chileno. A la mañana siguiente apareció en el lugar un misterioso navío, el Santo Domingo. Las maniobras de éste hicieron sopechar que se trataba de un barco en apuros, con lo que ordenó que se preparara un...

El capitán Ahab, apoyado sobre su pierna fabricada con una mandíbula de cachalote, empuja a su tripulación del Pequod al desastre en su obsesión por acabar con la ballena blanca, con Moby Dick; esa reencarnación del mal que mutiló su cuerpo y su alma para siempre. Una novela de aventuras imprescindible,...

Este libro puede ser peligroso. Tras el correr de sus páginas, del entrecruzado de sus signos, usted no será la misma persona. Hay lecturas, que como surcos en la tierra, marcan; adentrarse en el mundo de Bartleby, este personaje que vive en su oficina, silencioso, aislado y sin pasado; deja sin duda huellas, da o resta sentido al cotidiano.

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 der deutschen Fassung “TAIPI”,...

Übersetzt Von Wilhelm Strüver Die Fahrt beginnt am Weihnachtstag. Kapitän Ahab lässt sich anfangs nicht an Deck blicken. Erst auf offener See kommt er aus seiner Kabine und erklärt der Mannschaft in pathetischen Worten das wahre Ziel der Fahrt: Er will Moby Dick, den weißen Wal, der ihm das...

Mr. Post has written a story that is fresh and wholesome and quite as full of adventure as the average reader can demand... He impresses upon his reader with consummate skill the strong fascinations that the mountains have for men who, like the writer, have spent many years of their lives among them."--New York Journal.

Maggie. 'Pon my sowl, it's the docthor's a jewel, that he is! Didn't I burn me wid the hot fat, that made me howl wid the pain uv it? And didn't the blissid docthor tind me loike his own sisther—wid the cooling and haling salve for me fisht, and the wee sugar pills for the faver that was burnin' me...

Semiramis - one of the historical persons shrouded in mystery: Great Babylonian Queen preserved in the history as a strong woman, scares the historian so they made from her just a legend. All legends are, but the truth waiting for those who are ready to decipher them. Read this...

Kate, said Aunt Deborah to me as we sat with our feet on the fender one rainy afternoon—or, as we were in London, I should say one rainy morning—in June, "I think altogether, considering the weather and what not, it would be as well for you to give up this Ascot expedition, my dear."...

It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this. When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peru—her last harbour in the Pacific—I found myself without a grego, or sailor's surtout; and as, toward...