Herman Melville

"Moby Dick" (noto anche come "La Balena" - The Whale) dello scrittore americano Herman Melville è oggi considerato uno dei più importanti libri della letteratura mondiale. La storia racconta le avventure di un marinaio, Ismaele, e del suo viaggio intorno al mondo sulla baleniera Pequod...

Un avvocato, il suo studio, i suoi due impiegati, un giovanissimo fattorino, e infine l'arrivo di un terzo impiegato, pallido, scialbo in modo singolare: Bartleby. Bartleby si presenta come un impiegato modello, il primo ad arrivare e l'ultimo ad andare via (apparentemente), ligio al dovere...

Frugando tra gli scaffali ho ritrovato il libro che racconta la storia di uno scrivano...

Filippo Scotti legge Bartleby lo scrivano di Hermann Melville, un audiolibro della collana Anche i giovani leggono i classici, con cui Audiolibri Salani propone grandi classici della letteratura internazionale interpretati da celebri volti giovani in una chiave moderna e coinvolgente. Questo...

From its famous opening line to its thunderous final confrontation, Moby Dick by Herman Melville stands as one of the great monuments of American literature. Narrated by Ishmael, the novel follows the whaling ship Pequod as it sails under the command of Captain Ahab—a man consumed by his...

"Billy è l'ultimo. E Billy Budd è una parabola. In questo discorso in forma di racconto (che, come è noto, fu redatto tra il 1886-1888 e...

Herman Melville’s classic masterpiece tells the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab....

Do men need poems? Is the gender of brawn and ‘can-do’ really a candidate for honeyed verse? Obviously yes. Men needs words. They need support, understanding as well as goals, ambition and structure. They need purpose, desire; the need to love and be loved....

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael", dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory...

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, was first published in 1851. Known for its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," and for its epic narrative, complex characters, and rich symbolism, it is considered one of the greatest works of American literature.

Moby-Dick or The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale....

This carefully curated collection brings together some of the most influential and enduring works in American literature.

Moby Dick est le nom d'un cachalot que le capitaine Achab traque depuis toujours sur son baleinier le Péquod. Tous les marins présents dans le bateau de chasse ont une histoire, que nous raconte le héros, Ismaël. La traversée en mer devient une épopée pour tous ces hommes, en quête...

Ismael un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero....

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death. The stories in Storm have more to say than that. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving.....

In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War. Evoking Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers...

Sie sind längst mythische Figuren, der weiße Wal und Kapitän Ahab. Aber Herman Melvilles Roman ist immer wieder neu zu entdecken: Diese neue Version des Moby-Dick ist eine Action-Fassung der legendären Hörspielproduktion von 2002, die schon mehrfach ausgezeichnet wurde. Eine erstklassige...

“I may truly pronounce the Typees to be as polished a community as ever the sun shone upon.” Herman Melville’s first novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, is a fictionalized account of his time in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, and it was his most popular work during his lifetime...

Bartleby, un hombre discreto y apocado, es contratado por un abogado para trabajarcomo copista judicial. Pronto descubrirá que la actitud de...

Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography.....