Herman Melville: 398 books

Adventure novel that narrates the journey of the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the Captain Ahab, hunting for whales and sperm whales, and in particular the enormous white whale Moby Dick.

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 originale inglese con traduzione in italiano. Adventure novel that tells the journey of a whaling...

An adventure story based on the idea of the author being held captive on the island of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas, during the mid 1850s.

A story by the author of Moby Dick, about the American Revolution. Israel Potter is a humble farmer, but joins the revolutionary army and sees action immediately at Bunker Hill. Through circumstance he comes into contact with Benjamin Frankin, King George III and Washington.

This is the saga of Pierre Glendinning, the upstate New York teenager who inherits a small fortune. However, disaster and tragedy lurk close by.

A short story about working on Wall Street in the 1850s. Bartleby is employed in the office of a Manhattan lawyer. At first it seems like a match made in heaven, but the relationship soon deteriorates to the point where the office has to be moved.

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. Bartleby beginnt seine Tätigkeit mit stillem Fleiß und einsiedlerischer Ausdauer. Er kopiert unermüdlich...

*Includes over 10 minutes of video and audio about the lives and famous flights of Lindbergh and Earhart

It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. Therefore you...

THE ISLES AT LARGE. —"That may not be, said then the ferryman, Least we unweeting hap to be fordonne; For those same islands seeming now and than, Are not firme land, nor any certein wonne, But stragling plots which to and fro do ronne In the...

Moby Dick, la terrible baleine blanche ! Depuis qu'elle l'a privé d'une jambe, le capitaine Achab s'est juré de se venger. Ignorant tous les présages funestes, il entraîne pendant de longs mois l'équipage du Pequod dans une folle poursuite à travers les océans.

Je suis un homme d'un certain âge. La nature de mes occupations au cours des trente dernières années a voulu que je fusse particulièrement en contact avec une catégorie d'hommes intéressants et quelque peu singuliers, semble-t-il, au sujet desquels on n'a encore, à ma connaissance, rien écrit : j'entends les copistes de pièces juridiques ou scribes.....

L’histoire d’un fou étrangement captivant qui poursuit une guerre impie contre une créature aussi vaste, dangereuse et inconnaissable que la mer elle-même. Mais plus qu’un roman d’aventure, plus qu’une encyclopédie de la tradition de la chasse à la baleine et de sa légende,...

Moby-Dick, one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, follows the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and Captain Ahab who seeks out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge.