Melville: 568 books
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority...
Ausgewählte amerikanische Kurzgeschichten: Erzählungen von Herman Melville, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne und anderen
Die Legende Von Sleepy Hollow + Der Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue + Adams Tagebuch + Das schwatzende Herz + Bartleby + Staatswirtschaft + David Swan + Die karmesinrote Kerze...
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert. Inhalt: Washington Irving Die Legende Von Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Herman Melville Bartleby...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This magnificent collection features the most important of Herman Melville's works. Included are the following: Moby Dick, Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Typee: A Romance of the South Sea, and Redburn: His First Voyage. This collection has been meticulously formatted for your...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
* Book : Typee
* Biography
* Bibliography
Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short tale by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) is among Herman Melville’s most important stories, and has been considered a precursor to Existentialist and Absurdist literature.
Has there ever been a less desirable job title than scrivener?
They were employed by lawyers to transcribe...
Omoo
"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words, he understands hard things."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819 the third of eight children. At age 7 he contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight. By 12 his Father, bankrupted by a failed fur business with the embargo’s of the 1812 war with England, died. The family...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
In this spirited saga, a promising young soldier is wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, sets sail with John Paul Jones, and undertakes espionage at the behest of Benjamin Franklin. Herman Melville drew upon the obscure memoirs of a Revolutionary War veteran to create his only historical novel,...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This ebook compiles Herman Melville's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and poems such as "Moby Dick", "Clarel", "Billy Budd", "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno". This edition has been professionally formatted...
by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Contraband - Or, A Losing Hazard. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by...
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, by Moby-Dick's author
(With Audiobook Link)
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a Canterbury...
by Richard Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Grand Prix: Formula One in the deadly years is the story of a Formula One motor-racing driver in the deadly years of the 1970s.
William Archer, is the consummate risk taker, he is racing Formula One cars in the deadly years of the 1970’s where his chance of survival is one in three....
Warm Knits, Cool Gifts
Celebrate the Love of Knitting and Family with more than 35 Charming Designs
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Warm hearts this winter with handcrafted gifts designed by knitting’s favorite mother-daughter duo.
With shawls to wrap up in, hats to pull over our ears, wool sweaters to keep us warm, and ornaments for the tree, autumn and winter lend themselves to knitting in a way like no other time of...