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Herman Melville‘s picturesque account of the Galapagos Islands will make you want to abandon all responsibilities and travel there to see for yourself. Melville wrote this series of "sketches" – or short...
In the enigmatic realm of 19th-century New York City, Herman Melville's "Pierre, or The Ambiguities" unravels a tale of love, betrayal, and the complexities of human nature. Pierre Glendinning, a young...
The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run...
Para sair da monotonia, o professor rural Ismael decide descobrir os mistérios das baleias. Quando ele encontra o arpoador Queequeg, eles partem juntos para a ilha de Nantucket em busca de trabalho no...
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and...
Edition enrichie (Présentation, chronologie, bibliographie, dossier et notes)Un jeune commis aux écritures se présente un jour à l’étude d’un notaire new-yorkais. S’il commence son nouvel emploi avec...
Every reader knows the obsessive story of Captain Ahab and the famous white whale. Moby Dick is the great American novel, a monument of literature. Based on the events depicted in the “Narrative of the...
Répondant à l’appel du large, le jeune Ismaël embarque sur un navire baleinier commandé par un étrange officier. Le capitaine Achab a eu la jambe arrachée lors d’une précédente saison de chasse. Hanté...
L’histoire du capitaine Achab peut se lire « comme la passion funeste d’un personnage fou de douleur et de solitude. Mais elle peut aussi se méditer comme l’un des mythes les plus bouleversants qu’on...
Cette collection a été spécialement conçue pour des jeunes lecteurs de 7 ans, scolarisés en classe de CE1. Elle reprend des grands textes de la littérature pour enfants et adolescents tout en les rendant...
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...
Moby Dick, c’est la monstrueuse baleine blanche, l’incarnation du Mal, cette figure de l’obsession et du double qui, des profondeurs glacées, accompagne le capitaine Achab habitué en surface aux combats...
«En 1843, je pris la mer comme "simple matelot" à bord d'une frégate des États-Unis qui se trouvait mouillée dans un port de l'océan Pacifique. Après être resté plus d'une année sur cette frégate, je...
While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville’s best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural...
A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville
Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano,...
“Je préférerais ne pas” : telle est la réponse, invariable et d’une douceur irrévocable qu’oppose Bartleby, modeste commis aux écritures dans un cabinet de Wall Street, à toute demande qui lui est faite....
Ismaël est attiré par la mer et le grand large. Il décide alors de partir à la chasse à la baleine et embarque sur le Pequod, un baleinier commandé par le capitaine Achab. Mais Ismaël s’aperçoit que le...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!’ It is the end of the eighteenth century,...
In Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, a group of steamboat passengers paddle to New Orleans on April Fool’s Day. As the Mississippi carries them down river, everyone is selling something:...
Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after...
"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....
«J’aimerais mieux ne pas» répond invariablement le scribe Bartleby quand on lui confie un travail. Cette phrase, devenue culte, est un cri de résistance puissant. L’obstination de Bartleby à refuser toutes...
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...
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