Moby-Dick - formato ePub

"Bartleby, el escribiente" es un relato escrito por Herman Melville en 1853. Narra la historia de un abogado que contrata a un escribiente llamado Bartleby. Aunque inicialmente eficiente, Bartleby comienza...

Conmemoramos el bicentenario del nacimiento de Melville con la edición de una de sus obras más célebres. Introducción de Enrique Vila-Matas, escritor Traducción de María José Chuliá Considerada una obra...

El gran clásico de Herman Melville en el que la caza de un cachalote se convierte en una metáfora de la condición humana. Traducción de Enrique Pezzoni Introducción de Andrew Delbanco, profesor de la...

El vendedor de pararrayos es un cuento poco conocido de Herman Melville, autor reconocido por su biblico Moby Dick. El cuento se ambienta en medio de una tormenta cuando llama a la puerta de una casa...

"Es la horrible textura de una tela que debería estar tejida con cables y guindacables de barcos. Un viento polar sopla a través de ella y las aves de rapiña se ciernen sobre ella".Entonces Melville escribió...

El vendedor de pararrayos es un cuento poco conocido de Herman Melville, autor reconocido por su biblico Moby Dick. El cuento se ambienta en medio de una tormenta cuando llama a la puerta de una casa...

En 1843, después de tres años en los mares del sur, Melville se enroló en la fragata United States y volvió a América. Un año de travesía sometido a la dura disciplina naval le proporcionó el material...

1797. La amenaza revolucionaria y las tropas del Directorio francés tienen consternada a Europa. En el Mediterráneo, el buque mercante Derechos del Hombre -nombre simbólico donde los haya- es abordado...

Bicentenario Herman Melville (1819-2019)«Hay quien ha sugerido que Melville se propuso la escritura de un texto deliberadamente inexplicable que fuera un símbolo cabal de este mundo, también inexplicable.»...

El capitán Ahab, apoyado sobre su pierna fabricada con una mandíbula de cachalote, empuja a su tripulación del Pequod al desastre en su obsesión por acabar con la ballena blanca, con Moby Dick; esa reencarnación...

"Llamadme Ismael. Hace algunos años, no importa exactamente cuántos, con poco dinero en el bolsillo y nada que me interesara en tierra, pensé en hacerme a la mar y ver la parte acuática del mundo. Es...

Bicentenario del nacimento de Herman Melville La novela Benito Cereno es una de las novelas más conocidas de Herman Melville. Publicada en 1855, está basada en la historia real del español Benito Cerreño,...

Una historia de Wall Street. Ese es el importante subtítulo de esta pequeña pero gran obra de Herman Melville. Leerla es un desborde de emociones contrapuestas que te dejará pensando o todo y nada a la...

El vendedor de pararrayos es un cuento poco conocido de Herman Melville, autor reconocido por su biblico Moby Dick. El cuento se ambienta en medio de una tormenta cuando llama a la puerta de una casa...

Narra la historia un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street, Nueva York, quien, según sus propias palabras, "en la tranquilidad de un cómodo retiro, trabaja cómodamente con...

El vendedor de pararrayos es un cuento poco conocido de Herman Melville, autor reconocido por su biblico Moby Dick. El cuento se ambienta en medio de una tormenta cuando llama a la puerta de una casa...

They all attacked my heart, and got away. This is no ordinary love story, it is all I have witnessed in my days of pure love and fantasy. Love is amazing at first, and so said, if two people love each...

'Eerie, atmospheric' Louise Jensen'A haunting tale of intrigue' Emily Freud'Ruth Ware fans will eat this up' Publishers WeeklyIf beauty is in the eye of the beholder, how much can you trust what you see?...

A look back at everything every character from the series has been through since the last time you heard from them.

A town under fire. A detective with something to prove. A killer hiding in plain sight. The small town of Rislake in the picturesque Blue Mountains is about to be engulfed by a major bushfire. The order...

Vorok knows the rules of the Red District. Bust heads. Take names. And never cross the boss. But when the boss's daughter tries to run away from an unwanted engagement, Vorok has a choice to make: send...

So it was all real after all… I had a sneaking suspicion most of the customer's at Kenny's diner were supernatural creatures. That was until my memory was wiped by a witch, thanks to Mac, the other night-shift...

Annie has been waiting for Sam's return from the 1300's for two entire months. He told her he would be gone one week, his focus on searching out his mother and finding out about the man who fathered him....

An elegant, melancholic novella about memory, family and the meaning of home. This is the tale of the fractured family life of Bonnie McCarthy, a glamorous American divorcée, and her daughter, Flor....

Stories are spells. Healers have long recognised the need to travel to psychic realms, from heaven to Hesperides, to effect cures. Ancient medicinal manuscripts pair myth and magical incantation with...

To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community in Puritan New England. One disciple, Dr Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's...

'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?''No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly. The garden...the...body... we need you, Penny.'For women of Penny's generation,...

1981. A different Britain. When Norman Forrester of the Defence Ministry's Experimental Institute effects a successful fertilisation of a female gorilla with human sperm, an infant is born. Gordon, known...

Two lonely strangers. One chance encounter. Six winning numbers. Dot is a lonely pensioner. Max is a young offender. But a chance meeting in their local park changes everything for this unlikely duo....

An irresistibly romantic historical adventure, set in medieval Japan, tinged with fantasy and revolving around the art of waka poetry__________'A charming, magical, picaresque journey through medieval...

'An enthralling page-turner' DILLY COURT'A heart-warming WW2 love story' ROSIE GOODWIN'A great new series from the queen of East End sagas' ELAINE EVEREST*1941. Whilst London is battered by air raids,...

Set in the buried streets of Georgian London and the outrageous underworld of the molly houses, a carpenter hiding a double life searches for a traitor who is betraying the secrets of the mollies. The...

'A lovely warm escapist read' KATE EBERLENShe's in love. Just with the wrong man...Nora is done with dating, but still dreams of finding the one. So when a handsome stranger comes to her rescue one night...

PRE-ORDER NOW! Your invitation for the hottest summer thriller of 2024 has arrived . . .'The thriller of the summer' SARA OCHS'Smart, sharp and stylish' ANDREA MARA 'Addictive' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Everything...

HENRY AND VIOLET FELL IN LOVE IN THE ORANGE HOUSE. AND SO WILL YOU. Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Mallorca. They promised their lives to each...

Bryony doesn't actually mind being single. So she doesn't understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sleeping with) Ed, who is perfectly fine, but also only okay. After developing the ick on their fifth date,...

 After years as an ancient weapons authenticator, Avery Beaton suddenly finds herself in demand—all because of her new power to tell a genuine artifact from a fake. Duncan Kerr is a Hunter, a part-Fae/part-human,...

We’ve all met a nosey parker – but have you met the Parker Sisters – the private detectives who’ve turned being curious into a way of life… A jilted wife, a jealous...

The trip was supposed to be fun. When Kit's best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for a quick, idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They'll soak...

The Psychology of Death is a collection of three psychologically dark stories that dive into all aspects of death; both mentally and physically. Other elements in these stories include fantasy and romance. In...

Steamy Nights Complete Series 1 – 3 Michael is a broken SEAL, and Selena may be the one to fix him in more ways than one. This story will take you through a timeline of love, heartbreak, and more. It's...

The death of Claire's parents triggers troubled memories of her past life in Jakarta, a time that Claire has been running away from her whole life. Haunted by guilt and the terrible misunderstandings...

The Naturist Fiction Collaborative's fifth collection of short stories set in assorted naturist settings. Following on from Murder in The Nudist Colony, Romance In The Nudist Colony, and Adventures Without...

'Tense and tightly plotted with a killer twist' Louise Jensen, author of The Intruders A cruel bully A troubled daughter...

A gripping new summer thriller from the bestselling author of Our House, full of characters you'll love to hate and twists you'll never see coming! ‘A stylish, sun-soaked thriller… Our Holiday...

A royal kidnapping…derailed by desire! When billionaire Benedetto vows to bring runaway Princess Amelia home on his superyacht, he’s prepared to do anything to succeed—even kidnap...