Forfatter fødeår: 1819-1891
Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville’s own life.
Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd—presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.
Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men find the great white whale? A young sailor, Ishmael, tells the story of their exciting and dangerous trip.
Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg.
PUBLISHED TO COINCIDE WITH THE BECENTENARY OF HORACE WALPOLE'S DEATH Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes.
Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.
The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab... Læs mere
Presents a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick.