Herman Melville - Libros y biografía

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns...

"Typee. A peep at Polynesian life" è il romanzo d'esordio di Herman Melville, con il quale si impose all'attenzione del pubblico e della critica. Fu da subito un caso letterario, e fino alla seconda metà...

Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855. When Israel...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab,...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all...

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the...

Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth...

The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search...

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...

The critically acclaimed author of that behemoth of nineteenth-century fiction, Moby-Dick, Herman Melville was also an accomplished short story writer whom critics say did much to advance the form. The...

Io e il mio camino è un breve racconto scritto da Herman Melville e comparso per la prima volta sul Putnam’s Monthly nel 1856. In quegli anni, preso dalla scrittura di Moby Dick, Melville si trasferisce...

Moby-Dick is considered a great American novel of the Romantic Period. The British edition first appeared in October 1851 as The Whale, while the American edition appeared in November under its definitive...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville, in which Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the albino sperm whale Moby Dick,...

"Moby Dick" is a novel by Herman Melville and dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was published in London in October 1851 as "The Whale" and a month later in New York City as "Moby Dick". "Moby Dick"...

Ein älterer Rechtsanwalt berichtet als Icherzähler von einem seiner Schreiber namens Bartleby, den er eines Tages in sein von Hochhäusern umstelltes lichtloses Büro in der Wall Street aufnimmt. Bartleby...

This ebook comprises the complete writings of Herman Melville. The collection is sorted chronologically by book publication. There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter...

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.

The young Billy is forced to enlist as a sailor in the British navy, a series of events will lead him to be wrongfully accused and tried for conspiracy.

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set...

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 08/05/2020. Attraverso gli occhi di Ismaele, narratore onnisciente e personaggio principale del romanzo (nonostante di lui non si sappia quasi nulla, se non che si è imbarcato sulla...

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of "Putnam's...

"Bartleby" (titre original : "Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street") est une nouvelle de Herman Melville (l'auteur de "Moby Dick") parue une première fois en 1853 dans le "Putnam's Monthly...

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod,...

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...

Il capitano Achab che con la sua baleniera e il suo equipaggio va a caccia dell'enorme balena bianca è entrato nell'immaginario collettivo ed è una vera e propria icona della narrativa moderna. 'Moby...

Scritto probabilmente nel 1891, anno di morte dell'autore, ma pubblicato solo nel 1924, è l'affascinante storia di un marinaio e della nave su cui aveva navigato, 'l'Indomitable'. Ambientato all'epoca...

Pubblicato inizialmente come opera anonima, in due parti, nel 1853 sulla rivista 'Putnam's Magazine', questo celebre racconto di Melville fu ispirato all'autore dagli scritti e dalla filosofia di Ralph...

L'arte del raccontare l'uomo e l'umanità (ed. aggiornata 2023) Bartleby è il nome di un grigio, "invisibile" impiegato di Wall Street che, senza fornire spiegazione alcuna, man mano rinuncia al suo lavoro...

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of...

Pubblicato a New York nel 1855, viene inserito l’anno successivo nella raccolta Racconti della veranda, nella quale raccolta Benito Cereno è il terzo. Il filo conduttore di tutti e sei i racconti è l’ambiguità...