Melville - 電子書籍 9

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also ……続きを見る

manufacture, which my father, some thirty years before, had brought home from Hamburg as a present to a great-uncle of mine: Senator Wellingborough, who had died a member of Congress in the days of ……続きを見る

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the a……続きを見る

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1857. The book was published on April 1, the exact day of the ……続きを見る

Billy Budd, Sailor is the final novel by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924 as edited by Raymond M. Weaver, a professor at Columbia University. Other ver……続きを見る

Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also ……続きを見る

A TIME ago, no matter how long precisely, I, an old man, removed from the country to the city, having become unexpected heir to a great old house in a narrow street of one of the lower wards, once t……続きを見る

A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville 続きを見る

Le narrateur est un notaire qui engage dans son étude un dénommé Bartleby pour un travail de clerc, chargé de copier des actes. Au fil du temps cet être qui s'est d'abord montré travailleur, conscie……続きを見る

In those houses which are strictly double houses--that is, where the hall is in the middle--the fireplaces usually are on opposite sides; so that while one member of the household is warming himself……続きを見る

En 1799, pour faire le plein d'eau, le navire du capitaine Amaso Delano, le Délices du célibataire, mouille dans une petite île au sud du Chili . Arrive sur le même mouillage le San Dominick, un nég……続きを見る

Bartleby lo scrivano: una storia di Wall Street (titolo originale Bartleby the Scrivener) è un racconto di Herman Melville. Lo scritto fu, la prima volta, pubblicato anonimo, in due parti, sulla riv……続きを見る

Narra la historia de Bartleby, el escribiente, contada a través de un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street (Nueva York) y que, según sus propias palabras, «en la tranqui……続きを見る

This is the final work of American author Herman Melville (1819-1891), discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and published in Raymond Weaver's 1924 edition of "The Collected Wo……続きを見る

Gas Masks and Palm Trees: My Wartime Hawaii belongs on bookshelves next to books about the cause and effects of the December 7th attack. It paints a concise picture of changes that occurred on Oahu ……続きを見る

The year is 2088. A virus has killed countless people and the world swelters in a relentless heat wave. In a small, isolated compound in Australia, Olivia Taylor volunteers to search for meat and ot……続きを見る

I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some just 3 or 4 years old, were shipped off t……続きを見る

In our dealings with the brute creation, it cannot be too much insisted on that mutual confidence is only to be established by mutual good-will. The perceptions of the beast must be raised to their ……続きを見る

A wild wet night in the Channel, the white waves leaping, lashing, and tumbling together in that confusion of troubled waters, which nautical men call a "cross-sea." A dreary, dismal night on Calais……続きを見る

Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corrobora……続きを見る

A fictionalized account about the revolt on a 19th-century Spanish slavery ship, Benito Cereno was first published in three installments in 1855. Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr. called the st……続きを見る

Based on Melville's travels in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is told by an unnamed narrator who boards a whaling vessel bound for Tahiti……続きを見る

In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However……続きを見る

In ‘Moby Dick’ van Herman Melville sluit zeevaarder Ismaël zich, ondanks angstaanjagende voorspellingen, aan bij de bemanning van kapitein Achab, die op het punt staat te vertrekken op een obsessiev……続きを見る

* Book : Bartleby, the Scrivener * Biography * Bibliography The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relat……続きを見る

* Book : Typee * Biography * Bibliography Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its ……続きを見る

It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this. When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peruーher last harbour in……続きを見る

Ein älterer Rechtsanwalt berichtet als Icherzähler von einem seiner Schreiber namens Bartleby, den er eines Tages in sein von Hochhäusern umstelltes lichtloses Büro in der Wall Street aufnimmt. Bart……続きを見る

Romanzo di avventura che narra il viaggio della baleniera Pequod, comandata dal capitano Achab, a caccia di capodogli e balene, e in particolare della enorme balena bianca Moby Dick. Libro in lingua……続きを見る