Herman: 1212 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening...

Herman Melville Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American...

Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual...

Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Inspired by true events,...

Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features...

I and My Chimney by Herman Melville libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

This is the history of a Lie—of a cruel and terrible Lie invented for the purpose of defaming the entire Jewish people. Given out as fiction, by a German anti-Semitic writer, involved in the Waldeck forgery case, who concealed his identity under the pen-name of an Englishman, it was gradually changed...

A compelling story about love, loss, betrayal and redemption, as one woman discovers a family secret that changes everything she's ever known. When Anna Miller's father is killed less than two years after the death of her mother, Anna finds herself alone in the world.  Moving back into her...

A modern Huckleberry Finn, 17° 44' 11" N / 64° 44' 10" chronicles the time of two young teenagers from completely different lives, Henri, son of a wealthy banker and Duval, a poor but resourceful Islander from the depths of the Caribbean and their unbelievable adventure falling head first...

I percorsi dell’immaginazione. Studi in onore di Pietro Montani è un volume che vuole rendere omaggio a uno dei maggiori studiosi italiani di estetica, di cinema, di arti e nuove tecnologie. Diviso in cinque sezioni (Filosofia, Semiotica e teoria dei linguaggi, Cinema, Teoria delle arti...

Mack, by H.G. Wortman, is a collection of comical short stories with one hero: Everyman at his best or, depending on one's point of view, worst. Mack does not mean to cause chaos wherever he goes; it just follows along behind him everywhere. From the theatre to the privacy of his own private...

È l’1 aprile a bordo del Fidele, un battello che naviga in direzione New Orleans lungo il corso del Mississippi. Mentre commercianti, dame, agenti di cambio, ambulanti, studenti, avvocati e vecchi avari svolgono i propri affari e chiacchierano passeggiando nei saloni e sul ponte, nella folla si...

Questo è il romanzo che ha stroncato la carriera di Herman Melville. Pubblicato nel 1852, poco dopo Moby Dick, è il libro, forse, che solo il capitano Achab avrebbe potuto scrivere. Oceanico, involuto, imperfetto, “il romanzo più folle mai scritto”, Pierre, o delle ambiguità mette in scena...

Moby Dick di Herman Melville, capolavoro della letteratura mondiale, meravigliosa storia di mare e d'avventura, è anche un complesso studio del conflitto tra l'uomo e le imperscrutabili forze naturali che lo sovrastano. Il suo ascolto provoca un forte senso di disorientamento, analogo al sentirsi...