Herman Melville: 398 books
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short tale by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) is among Herman Melville’s most important stories, and has been considered a precursor to Existentialist and Absurdist literature.
Has there ever been a less desirable job title than scrivener?
They were employed by lawyers to transcribe...
Omoo
"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words, he understands hard things."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819 the third of eight children. At age 7 he contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight. By 12 his Father, bankrupted by a failed fur business with the embargo’s of the 1812 war with England, died. The family...
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas, A Peep at Polynesian Life, Classic Travel and Adventure Literature
(With Audiobook Link)
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas...
Bartleby, le scribe / Bartleby, the Scrivener
Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English
Language: French
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Cette édition contient la traduction française et le texte original en anglais. "Bartleby" (titre original : "Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street") est une nouvelle de Herman Melville (l'auteur de "Moby Dick") parue une première fois en 1853 dans le "Putnam's Monthly Magazine" et reprise...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2016
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were published between 1846 and 1857. Best known for his sea adventure Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851), he was...
Bartleby, el escribiente / Bartleby, the Scrivener
Edición bilingüe: español - inglés / Bilingual Edition: Spanish - English
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Esta edición contiene la traducción al español y el texto original en inglés. "Bartleby, el escribiente" ("Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street") es un cuento del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville. Ha sido considerado una de sus mejores obras. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of...
by Herman Melville
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Bicentenario Herman Melville (1819-2019)
«Hay quien ha sugerido que Melville se propuso la escritura de un texto deliberadamente inexplicable que fuera un símbolo cabal de este mundo, también inexplicable.» Jorge Luis Borges
Fondeado en el puerto de Santa María, una pequeña isla...
by Herman Melville
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Das Werk "OMU. Erlebnisse in der Südsee" ist ein Roman von Herman Melville, erstmals 1847 veröffentlicht. Der Originaltitel lautet "Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas". Herman Melville, geboren als Herman Melvill (* 1. August 1819 in New York City, New York; †...
Typee
Avventura in Polinesia
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 10, 2015
"Typee. A peep at Polynesian life" è il romanzo d'esordio di Herman Melville, con il quale si impose all'attenzione del pubblico e della critica. Fu da subito un caso letterario, e fino alla seconda metà del Novecento era considerato il suo capolavoro.
Molto più di un affresco esotico...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major work in eleven years. The novel portrays a...
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared.
Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—*Bartleby the Scrivener *is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever....
by Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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 Works of Melville." The emergence of what some consider to be Melville's masterpiece sparked...
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, E.T.A. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Seven of the greatest authors of all time present their great works in the short story genre. In this book you can travel through the minds of geniuses like Bram Stoker, Herman Melville and Oscar Wilde. The selection of August Nemo contains the following works for your appreciation: Dracula's Guest...