By the American novelist, essayist and poet, widely esteemed as one of the most important figures in American literature and best remembered today for his masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851). He is less well known as a poet and did not publish...

Every reader knows the obsessive story of Captain Ahab and the famous white whale. Moby Dick is the great American novel, a monument of literature. Based on the events depicted in the "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing...

"Moby Dick" von Herman Melville ist ein klassischer Roman, der die obsessive Suche des Kapitäns Ahab nach einem gewaltigen weißen Wal namens Moby Dick erzählt. Der Erzähler, Matrose Ishmael, tritt der Mannschaft des Walfangschiffs Pequod...

"Bartleby, der Schreiber" ist eine Novelle von Herman Melville, die erstmals 1853 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Geschichte wird aus der Sicht eines unbenannten Anwalts erzählt, der in einer Kanzlei an der Wall Street arbeitet. Er stellt...

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`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. The selection in this volume...

The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. "Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better...

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"Moby Dick" von Herman Melville ist eine epische Geschichte, die das Abenteuer des Walfängerschiffs Pequod und seiner Besatzung erzählt. Der Roman folgt der obsessiven Suche von Kapitän Ahab nach Moby Dick, einem weißen Wal, der ihm bei...

"Moby Dick" von Herman Melville ist ein klassischer Roman, der die abenteuerliche und symbolträchtige Geschichte von Kapitän Ahab und seiner Besessenheit erzählt, den weißen Wal Moby Dick zu jagen. Die Handlung wird aus der Perspektive...

»Was sollen wir jetzt tun, Toby?Nunda wir nicht zurück können, müssen wir wohl vorwärts. von Melville, Herman

Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever...