Herman Melville: 398 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Herman Melville was a well-known American novelist in his day, with best-sellers like Typee, but by the time he died in 1891, he had fallen into obscurity. Although his first few books were popular, they...

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by the American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country"...

Herman Melville was one of the greatest writers during the American Renaissance.  Melville’s unique style helped produce classics in many different genres.  This edition of Jimmy Rose includes a table of contents. 

Bartleby der Schreiber ist das erste Werk, das Melville nach Moby Dick schrieb. Zur Inhalt: Ein älterer Rechtsanwalt berichtet als Ich-Erzähler von einem seiner Schreiber namens Bartleby, den er eines Tages in sein von Hochhäusern umstelltes lichtloses Büro in der Wall Street aufnimmt. Bartleby...

Publicada de forma anónima por primera vez en 1853, “Bartleby, el escribiente” es una de las más aclamadas historias creadas por Herman Melville. En ella narra la curiosa decisión de un peculiar copista que trabaja en una oficina de Wall Street. Un día, de repente, deja de escribir amparándose...

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 Cereno, una de las novelas más conocidas de Herman Melville (1819-1891). El autor...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Although most people do not think of Herman Melville as a particularly funny writer, his "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and The Confidence Man have kept readers laughing for a century and a half. "Bartleby" is a simultaneously...

Herman Melville Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American...

È l’1 aprile a bordo del Fidele, un battello che naviga in direzione New Orleans lungo il corso del Mississippi. Mentre commercianti, dame, agenti di cambio, ambulanti, studenti, avvocati e vecchi avari svolgono i propri affari e chiacchierano passeggiando nei saloni e sul ponte, nella folla si...

Questo è il romanzo che ha stroncato la carriera di Herman Melville. Pubblicato nel 1852, poco dopo Moby Dick, è il libro, forse, che solo il capitano Achab avrebbe potuto scrivere. Oceanico, involuto, imperfetto, “il romanzo più folle mai scritto”, Pierre, o delle ambiguità mette in scena...

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 rivista Putnam's Magazine nel 1853, e fu poi incluso nella raccolta The Piazza Tales nel 1856 con...

Herman Melville Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American...

ere in evidence. It is clear that he did not set himself to master the poet's art, yet through the mask of conventional verse which often falls into doggerel, the voice of a true poet is heard. In selecting the pieces for this volume I have put in the vigorous sea verses of _John Marr_ in their entirety...

Herman Melville Born in New York City, the son of New England merchant. He worked at odd jobs (clerk, garmhand, teacher) before sailing to the South Seas on the whaler Acushnet. He deserted his ship, lived among cannibals, mutinied on an Australian boat, then spent two years on an American...