Moby-Dick von Melville, Herman

Moby Dick (Amazonclassics Edition) von Melville, Herman

"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...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one...

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. Yet his energy and fertility were matched by such...

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that...

Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.Part of the...

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

Herman Melville (1819-1891) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayist. Melvilles Moby-Dick gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Romane der Weltliteratur. Aus dem Buch: "Im Jahre 1799 lag Kapitän Amasa Delano aus Duxbury in...

Moby Dick von Melville, Herman

Herman Melville, einer der berühmtesten Autoren der Weltliteratur, war zu Lebzeiten ein Außenseiter, gescheitert als Schriftsteller und Mensch. Sein Leben auf Handelsschiffen und Walfängern inspirierte ihn zu seinen ersten erfolgreichen...

Omoo oder Abenteuer im stillen Ocean von Melville, Herman