Moby Dick non è soltanto il mirabile romanzo che tutti sanno: è un libro totale, dove la Balena («the Whale») sta appunto per il tutto («the Whole»). Così è una cronaca di avventure marine e un trat……続きを見る
Onboard the Fidèle, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legl……続きを見る
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Dal creatore del capolavoro Moby Dick, un racconto malinconico che simboleggia l’insaziabile materialismo dell’America di primo Ottocento
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Dopo aver comprato una vecchia fattoria nel Massachusetts, un uomo desidera contemplare il paesaggio, ma la casa è sprovvista di una veranda. Scendendo a compromessi con se stesso, si accontenta di ……続きを見る
The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville. This works contains some of Melville’s best known shorter works, consisting of six short stories: “The Piazz……続きを見る
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psycho……続きを見る
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. Centered on the title character, The C……続きを見る
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 you……続きを見る
American novelist Herman Melville’s cryptic third work about uncontrollable waves of human desire and their ability to set a person adrift in a sea of spiritual, philosophical, and artistic chaos. A……続きを見る
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work……続きを見る
The truth is, my wife, like all the rest of the world, cares not a fig for my philosophical jabber. Thus wrote Melville in 1856, in the house where he had penned 'Moby-Dick" some six years earlier (……続きを見る
15 Complete Works of Herman Melville
Bartleby, The Scrivener
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
I and My Chimney
Israel Potter
John Marr and Other Poems
Mardi and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
Mardi an……続きを見る
El narrador, 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, Mas……続きを見る
A haunted wood where dozens, if not hundreds, have gone missing. A city district abandoned after all who resided there fled in panic. A lighthouse frozen in time, and a ship lost to madness. These a……続きを見る
著者:Herman Melville
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2022年04月18日
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«Ich möchte lieber nicht.» Dieser kleine Satz, mit Bestimmtheit ausgesprochen, ist Bartleby zum Lebensmotto geworden. Lange hat der unscheinbare……続きを見る
著者:Herman Melville
出版社: Golgotha Press, Inc.
発売日: 2020年02月06日
Moby Dick is quite a story--an adventure--man vs. nature! It's often called one of the great American novels. Reading it should be a breeze, right? Not quite...at least for most!
If you are struggli……続きを見る
Un caldo mattino d’estate, Bartleby si presenta sulla soglia di un ufficio legale di Wall Street, a New York, in risposta a un annuncio di lavoro. Dopo averne accertato le qualifiche e apprezzato la……続きを見る
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The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter has been read, when it has been read at all, in the same way as college sophomores studying Shakespeare read Plutarch’s Lives, not for the moral h……続きを見る
Auszug: "Es liegt nicht weit von Temple Bar. Geht man auf dem gewöhnlichen Wege hin, ist es, als komme man aus einer heißen Ebene allmählich in ein kühles, tiefes, schattig zwischen beschützenden Hü……続きを見る
In den drei Teilen des Erzählwerks werden nach und nach die Hintergrundgeschehnisse an Bord eines spanischen Handelsschiffes mit einer Ladung von schwarzen Sklaven enthüllt, das unter dem Kommando d……続きを見る
Auszug: "Man nehme fünfundzwanzig Haufen Kohlenschlacke, draußen vor der Stadt auf einem Grundstück wahllos ausgekippt. Man stelle sich dann vor, einige von den Haufen wären zu Bergen vergrößert, un……続きを見る
Auszug: "Sie sehen«, sagte der Dichter Blandmour enthusiastisch, als wir vor etwa vierzig Jahren gegen Ende März durch weiches, feuchtes Schneegeriesel die Landstraße hinunter gingen, »Sie sehen, me……続きを見る
Auszug: "In allen Teilen der Erde haben jüngst kühne Aufstände von schurkischem Despotismus eins auf den Kopf bekommen; ebenso haben furchtbare Unfälle, von Lokomotiven oder Dampfern verursacht, Hun……続きを見る
Kratki roman američkog klasika Hermana Melvillea Benito Cereno prvi put je objavljen u nastavcima, u časopisu Putnam’s Monthly*,* 1855. godine; Melville će ga poslije uvrstiti u The Piazza Tales, je……続きを見る
The short story commenced its career as a verbal utterance, or, as Robert Louis Stevenson puts it, with "the first men who told their stories round the savage campfire."
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In 'Sarchedon: A Legend of the Great Queen' by G. J. Whyte-Melville, readers are transported back to ancient Assyria as they follow the tale of Sarchedon, a warrior torn between love and duty. The b……続きを見る
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Contraband - Or, A Losing Hazard. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, b……続きを見る
A book that explores the desire to fly, to be recognized, to be a hero, to be loved, to be independent and to experience great adventures. Billy Jo, is a farm boy in Virginia who is changed into a d……続きを見る
This is a collection of stories about interesting, unusual, bright human characters and destinies.
Contents:
Gusev by Anton Chekhov
Boule de Suif by Guy De Maupassant
Alyosha the Pot by Leo Tolstoy
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