"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" ist ein Roman von Herman Melville, der erstmals 1857 veröffentlicht wurde. Die Handlung spielt am 1. April auf einem Mississippi-Dampfer namens Fidèle und folgt einer Reihe von Begegnungen zwischen...

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"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...

Moby-Dick von Melville, Herman

Moby Dick (Amazonclassics Edition) von Melville, Herman

"Moby-Dick" von Herman Melville ist ein klassischer Roman, der die abenteuerliche und symbolträchtige Geschichte von Kapitän Ahab und seiner Besessenheit mit dem weißen Pottwal Moby Dick erzählt. Der Erzähler, Ishmael, heuert auf dem...

Moby Dick

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

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...