The name Herman Melville is synonymous with the pinnacle of American literary achievement, and many regard his novel Moby-Dick as the quintessential work of American fiction. In The Confidence-Man, ……続きを見る
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first work of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who i……続きを見る
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a book, the seventh novel, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops t……続きを見る
Top-notch detective Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, and several of his clever proteges band together to crack a number of fascinating cases in this……続きを見る
Die Männer des Walfangschiffes kommen aus aller Herren Länder. Hier muss sich der junge Ismael bewähren und findet in einem der Harpuniere einen Freund. Kapitän Ahab ist besessen von der Jagd auf Mo……続きを見る
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American sailor, novelist, writer of short stories, and poet. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857 and represent the sea novels, based on his ……続きを見る
First published in 1918, Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries is an anthology of detective stories written by Melville Davisson Post. The popular stories within this collection were serialized in nation……続きを見る
This magnificent collection features the most important of Herman Melville's works. Included are the following: Moby Dick, Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, Typee: A Romance of ……続きを見る
„Ich möchte lieber nicht.“ Bartleby ist der Held aller Neinsager. Als Schreiber in einer New Yorker Kanzlei ist er eigentlich der ideale Angestellte: hingebungsvoll, fleißig, rechtschaffen und s……続きを見る
Dieses eBook: "Die beliebtesten Abenteuerromane (35 Klassiker der Jugendliteratur - Illustrierte Ausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfälti……続きを見る
Complete and unabridged.
Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic ……続きを見る
The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
The nar……続きを見る
A collection of 16 mystery short stories:
The Thing on the Hearth, The Reward, The Lost Lady, The Cambered Foot, The Man in the Green Hat, The Wrong Sign, The Fortune Teller, The Hole in the Mahogan……続きを見る
"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. Lawre……続きを見る
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……続きを見る
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Melville’s classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature, Moby Dick is a riveting ……続きを見る
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 colle……続きを見る
When an unnamed narrator opens his door to a lightning-rod salesman, the two become involved in a philosophical discussion about faith and the will of God. The salesman claims that the copper rod wi……続きを見る
When the narrator decides to build a piazza at his new country home, his neighbours are amused when he decides to construct it on the north-facing side of his property. But the narrator is content, ……続きを見る
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 so……続きを見る
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 De……続きを見る
“From Hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee . . .”
Few literary masterworks cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest f……続きを見る
An aging lawyer hires a new copyist to help with his firm’s workload, and at first he finds himself pleased with his new employee. Bartleby is quiet, efficient and he doesn’t display any of the loud……続きを見る
Bannadonna is an eccentric artist and architect who dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, Bannadonna happily begins construction, but local citizens b……続きを見る
Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.
Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his……続きを見る
Ismaël, attiré par la mer et le large, décide de partir à la chasse à la baleine. Il embarque sur le Pequod, baleinier d'un capitaine nommé Achab, amputé d'une jambe, qui emmènera Ismaël autour du m……続きを見る
“Omu Wanderer in der Südsee” im Original “Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas” ist das zweite Buch des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Herman Melville und eine Fortsetzung des Romans “T……続きを見る
