Moby Dick - format ePub

Bartebly vive en su oficina, silencioso, aislado y sin pasado...Herman Melville (1819-1891) es uno de los más importantes escritores de la literatura estadounidense. En esta obra, pequeña en extensión...

Un "terrible episodio de nuestros anales marítimos" lo llamó Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna. Ocurrió en diciembre de 1804 en el mar de la isla Santa María, frente a Lebu, y fue la base del argumento de Benito...

Novela que relata el conflicto entre el capitán Ahab, jefe del ballenero Pequod, y la gigante ballena blanca Moby Dick –que en realidad es un cachalote–, l acual ya le ha quitado una de sus piernas hasta...

El encarnizado enfrentamiento entre el capitán Ahab y Moby Dick se ha convertido con el paso de los años en un lugar común de la literatura universal. La obra magna de Herman Melville narra el modo en...

Este libro puede ser peligroso. Tras el correr de sus páginas, del entrecruzado de sus signos, usted no será la misma persona. Hay lecturas, que como surcos en la tierra, marcan; adentrarse en el mundo...

Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. De igual forma se convence de que su travesía debe comenzar en Nantucket, Massachussets, isla...

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...

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El narrador, Ismael, es un joven estadounidense con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. De igual forma se convence de que su travesía debe comenzar en...

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...

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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.»...

"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...

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...

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...

En 1799, el capitán Amasa Delano ancló en la bahía de una isla desierta del litoral chileno. A la mañana siguiente apareció en el lugar un misterioso navío, el Santo Domingo. Las maniobras de éste hicieron...

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David has suffered and lost. While he has been rescued from the Nephilim, he must now heal. His mind is a maze that can either keep his trapped or provide a route back. In the end, the best way to heal...

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Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author who “is the best there is at sweeping historical drama” (Kelly Harms, author of The Seven Day Switch), returns with an electrifying new novel about...

Simiathlas is about to reconnect with her Elven kin across to the Outer Planes. First order of business demand from her godfather what he was thinking in the marriage proposal he sent to his girlfriend's...

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In Sydney, Australia, the racist, sexist and utterly insane amateur scientist known only by the moniker "Turtleneck", is clumsily transforming the city's effete black and brown men into deadly Schwarzenegger-like...

In a society where Victor Hale, a man who calls himself Emperor, rules with an iron fist, Clara Hayes is just another ordinary citizen trying to get by. Under Hale's oppressive regime, life is predictable,...

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A vampire visits the cinema. An old man fills his house with clocks. And a young girl tries to get her grandmother into heaven.These, and ten other strange tales of death and dying wait for you in this...

It's late, and Dez should go to bed, but instead, she keeps watching horror movies for the Mayhem & Madness Film Festival. She sees a new one pop up in her to-review queue: Adam. That's a funny title,...

Everyone has a story—but Nelie Peterson's turned out to be fiction.At forty, Nelie's life is perfectly full—thriving restaurant, community involvement, aging father—with zero desire for a second chance...

When the winds howl over the frozen fjords, the Northmen answer. Bound by blood and honor, they carve their saga into steel and storm. But when the shadows creep beyond the edge of their world, bringing...

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A pulse-pounding and blood-soaked tale of survival on the highway as a hitchhiking teenager is thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a brutal serial killer. Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix,...

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Kade's search for justice has met the storm of the century. Snowed in at a campground in the isolated community of Three Rivers, he's no longer a wanted man just another trapped tourist. He does his best...

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After recent events, Elizabeth Finch finds herself adrift without her partner. While trying to navigate this new circumstance, she comes across an intriguing cold case that she believes might be just...