Benito Cereno - formato 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...

Las miradas de Darwin y Melville se cruzan en "Las Encantadas" libro que recoge textos de dos viajeros marcados por ese archipiélago: Uno hayó las respuestas que darían lugar al "Origen de las especies"...

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...

Obra cumbre de las letras universales, Moby Dick es una de las mayores obras escritas en lengua inglesa. La novela narra la aventura épica de la caza del gran cachalote blanco que emprenden los marineros...

Ismael, l’únic supervivent del balener Pequod, ens explica l’obsessió del capità Acab per capturar la gran balena blanca, Moby Dick. El capità, un home de gairebé seixanta anys, en porta més de quaranta...

Muchos de los héroes melvilleanos temen y sufren «la deriva universal de la masa de la humanidad hacia el más completo de los olvidos» de la misma angustiosa manera que tratan de oponerse a ella. La propia...

SINOPSISBartleby, el escribiente es una de las narraciones más originales y conmovedoras de la historia de la literatura. Melville escribió este relato a mediados del siglo xix, pero por él no parece...

Después de leer Bartleby, el escribiente de Herman Melville sabrás que tu vida depende de la fuerza interior. Buscarás a toda costa preferir no hacer lo que no desees y, en efecto, no hacerlo, y tal vez,...

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...

"Bartleby, el escribiente" ("Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street") es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville. Ha sido considerado una de sus mejores obras.

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...

An Angel Alien. A Bar Owner. A Christmas Eve Nightmare.Aliens enjoy human festivities.When Bar Owner Peter Rodgers receives an alien warning, he races against time to save a friend. He quickly realises...

A Deceiver. A Superhuman. A Questionable Hero.When Hydra Legion Captain Severus travels to a loyal Empire world, he plots to spread lies, deceit and chaos.An old enemy waits in the shadows.Gripping. suspenseful....

Ian loves the Earth to the Moon route on Christmas. It pays great bonuses. But Charles, his best friend and secret crush, offers a gripping, emotional perspective that mixes love, romance and the meaning...

Two Men On A Train Going Home For Christmas. A Sparkle. A Love Story Over The Years.When Gabriel Darling goes home for Christmas, he meets the man of his dreams on a train.Readers will love this emotional,...

He chases crooks in the nineteenth century. She researches the past in the twenty-first. When both attend festivals that turn sinister, can they solve the crimes?Vancouver, 1898. Detective Jack Winston...

Anis and her brother Jatz wish their parents would realise they are now adults.Their life changes when they discover two strange looking men washed up on the beach. The men are telepaths, people outlawed...

When a woman is murdered by a vampire, St. Augustina must become the Constable. St. Augustina's tenure as the new constable of the Magic Guild Guard is not going well. The office staff quit in protest...

A Cold December. An Awful Bar. A Bitter Detective.Detectives hate the holidays.Private Detective Peter Griffins hates the holidays. He loves money. Peter meets a silly woman needing help.Peter investigates...

The first French edition of Les Ursitory was published just after the Second World War. During the war Matéo suffered the horrors of the concentration camps, like many others in his village. This is why...

Bet Swanson has returned to Richmond, the small town she once tried to leave behind, but something unsettling awaits her. The familiar streets seem wrapped in an eerie silence, and the townspeople, once...

A Hardboiled Student. A Drug Operation. A Final Day.University students love Final Day.Student William Tau hates Christmas. He hates University. William encounters an idiot young man in deep trouble.William...

A University Student. A Cop. A Brilliant Romance.Student Kai Brands loves Christmas parties. He enjoys the free food, a rarity in his life. Kai meets a beautiful man in a shocking way.Sweet. Moving. Eye-Opening....

A Rubbish Shack. A Lot Of Drunks. A Hardboiled Detective. Detectives escape family during the holiday season. I rather like Freedom Day, a day without my family before Christmas. I enjoy Dave's Shack...

Mary Woods loves her husband. She loves being a mother. Mary wants the best for her family.When World War Two breaks out, Mary Woods watches her husband go to war and wishes her husband would come home...

A Trapped Private Eye. A Christmas Crime. Little Hope For Rescue.A woman trapped in the darkness.Private Eye Bettie English sees darkness. She feels something covering her. Bettie tries to move.Can Bettie...

How do you defeat a monster that can injure the Gods? All everyone wants to do is catch their breath. With Cadence's brother and the head of Southern Paranormal Investigations gone, Cadence, Aiden, and...

A rare rose blooms between the weeds, an innocent on the run. The abandoned city no longer abandoned, the untamed tamed. The truth will be revealed and a curse broken. 

Sam McIntosh knows he doesn't need to be in the closet with his friends, but his family is another matter entirely. He keeps his sex life under wraps and never lets on to anyone that he enjoys any gender....

A University Christmas Social. Two Men In Love. A Gay Romance Story Needing To Be Corrected.When Alex Blue tells the truth behind how he met his husband at a university party, he retells a sweet, adorable,...

A Trapped Worker. A Chance To Escape. An Incoming Wreck.Rulers imprison people in the far future.Mia Scott watches the border of the Imperium. She supposedly protects it. Mila sees a mysterious incoming...

I should never have touched her. I didn't know she's my best friend's little sister. When I found out... well... My life went off the rails, and we didn't see each other again.Now three years later, we're...

What happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas… It's spring break, and a group of teachers from Half Moon Bay Middle School are planning to cut loose. History teacher Meg Phillips hadn't planned on being...

Because she was only fifteen and busy with her growing up, Lucia’s periods of reflection were brief and infrequent; but this morning she felt weighted with responsibility. Last night her mother, who rarely...

Mary Lynn Melton, now in her mid-40s, has resigned herself to a lonely fate, believing that her manipulative, deceitful, and destructive past has irreparably damaged her relationships and her life. In...

IF my aunt, Sarah Undridge, had lived until today she would have been a hundred years old. I was at a small party given for her ninety-ninth birthday, and she was spry enough then. There was a sense of...

For three centuries, Nara's existence has revolved around providing sexual gratification to men not of her choosing. As a concubine enslaved by a brutal master she knows only as the Conqueror, Nara can...

A Hot Café Owner. A Romantic Christmas Setting. A University Professor Wanting Love.Doctor Henry Oscar loves order, routine and Canterbury. He loves teaching the next generation. Henry wants a man.But...

This second book is an African story infused with magical realism. It deals with cruelty and prejudice, as characters embark on a journey of self-discovery. They must face the darkest parts of society...

What's worse than a man who hates Christmas?  A Christmas-hating man who won't let me borrow his reindeer. Living in a Christmas-obsessed town while being a self proclaimed Christmas enthusiast means...

A Bride for all Eternity. Ember Richard's wedding may have been arranged, but it might just be a childhood fantasy come true. Everything falls apart when Nathaniel gets called away to war—on her wedding...