`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...

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...

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make...

"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...

»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...

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...

"Call me Ishmael." These three famous words begin one of America's most epic novels, a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew, and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick. The massive original, however, can be very hard for young...

"Moby Dick" von Herman Melville ist eine epische Geschichte des obsessiven Kampfes zwischen dem Kapitän Ahab und dem weißen Wal Moby Dick. Ahab, der Kapitän des Walfangschiffs Pequod, hat ein persönliches Rachemotiv gegen den Wal, der...

Ich möchte lieber nicht. Herman Melvilles Erzählung über Sinnlosigkeit und Verzweiflung, über Verstummen und Verweigerung ist heute so modern wie bei ihrem Erscheinen vor über 150 Jahren. Stéphane Poulin gelingt es in seinen...

A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories-American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body...

Moby-Dick is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale who has crippled him. The first American novel to win a place in the literature of the world, it is a masterfully symbolic drama...