Herman: 1212 books

Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these — "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" — first appeared as magazine pieces and were then...

Herman Clerinx beschrijft de beschavingen die zo’n vijfduizend jaar geleden hunebedden en dolmens bouwden en menhirs rechtop zetten. Ze plaatsten die monumenten niet zozeer om hun doden te eren, maar vooral om hun eigen leefwereld te verbeteren. Voor dit boek reisde Clerinx onder andere naar...

Herman Bavinck, the premier theologian of the Kuyper-inspired, neo-Calvinistic revival in the late-nineteenth-century Netherlands, is an important voice in the development of Protestant theology. Essays on Religion, Science, and Society is the capstone of his distinguished career. These seminal essays...

Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists,...

Arthur Herman has now written the definitive sequel to his New York Times bestseller, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, and extends the themes of the book—which sold half a million copies worldwide—back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the age of the Internet. The Cave and the Light...

Although most people do not think of Herman Melville as a particularly funny writer, his "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and The Confidence Man have kept readers laughing for a century and a half. "Bartleby" is a simultaneously accurate and absurd depiction of life in a Wall Street office in the middle of...

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master...

Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance.  Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres.  This edition of The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids includes a table of contents. 

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses White's core ideas and traces the development of these ideas from the mid-1950s to the present. Starting with White's medievalist research and youthful...

Mardi: and a Voyage Thither: Volume I (In Two Volumes) was published in 1864 by HermMardi: and a Voyage Thither: Volume II (In Two Volumes) was published in 1864 by Herman Melville.  He was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 1 contains the following 10 Masterpieces : *Crime and Punishment - *Fyodor Dostoyevsky *Don Quixote - *Miguel de Cervantes *Hamlet - *William Shakespeare *Madame Bovary - *Gustave Flaubert *Moby-Dick - *Herman Melville *Pride and Prejudice - *Jane Austen *The...

In this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word “genocide.” They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to brand as evil those nations...