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Book Synopsis Billy Budd and the Encantadas by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Billy Budd and the Encantadas written by Herman Melville and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His "Moby-Dick" -- considered a failure during his lifetime, responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public -- was rediscovered in the 20th century as a masterpiece of literature.
Book Synopsis Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outwardly a narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a portrait of three extraordinary men.
Book Synopsis Shorter Novels of Herman Melville by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Shorter Novels of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.
Book Synopsis The Encantadas and Other Stories by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Encantadas and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features 14 of Melville's short stories reprinted from Harper's and Putnam's magazines, including "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a dramatic story set on the Galapagos Islands, plus "The Bell-Tower," more.
Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Piazza Tales by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1856 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele-" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.
Book Synopsis Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman by : Michael Jonik
Download or read book Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman written by Michael Jonik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, revisionary study of not only Herman Melville's political philosophy, but also of our own deeply inhuman condition.
Book Synopsis The Shorter Novels by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Shorter Novels written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles by : Herman Melville
Download or read book In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, the Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles written by Herman Melville and published by Cleanan Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sail to the exotic Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville, author of "Moby-Dick." Let History and Legend, Fiction and Fact, Myth and Mystery swirl around you as you enter "The Encantadas," a unique island world stretching along our planet's Equator. Discover teeming seabird rookeries, stark volcanic landscapes, and world famous giant tortoises . . . Meet buccaneers and explorers, colonists and castaways, whalers and naturalists . . . Explore these Enchanted Isles with one of America's greatest writers . . . Enrich your once-in-a-lifetime visit to . . . The Galapagos Islands. Travelers have been arriving in the Galapagos Islands since at least 1535. While naturalist Charles Darwin made these volcanic peaks famous, Spanish explorers, English buccaneers, American whalers, Ecuadorian colonists, and a United States President all put in appearances here over the centuries. Herman Melville was one such visitor. He first glimpsed the Galapagos Islands as a young seaman on the whaler "Acushnet" out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Years later, after the failure of his novel "Moby-Dick," he tried to regain his lost popularity with the reading public by writing a series ten of magazine sketches recalling the strange worlds he found in these Enchanted Isles. This current book was created for today's visitor-or armchair visitor. Bring it with you, or read it before you leave home. Enhance your enjoyment of the Galapagos Islands with these glimpses of its captivating natural and human history written over 150 years ago by that famous fellow traveler. Discover . . . - Herman Melville's ten sketches called "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles." - Forty of Moses Michelsohn's striking b&w photographs (in color in the ebook) from the Galapagos islands: birds, iguanas, giant tortoises, sea lions, exotic plants, and volcanic landscapes. - Lynn Michelsohn's introduction to the work, and to each individual sketch. Enjoy your visit to the Galapagos Islands! About the Authors Herman Melville wrote in the genre that has been called "dark romanticism." "The Encantadas," like "Moby-Dick" (considered by many to be the best novel ever written) and his well respected novella "Billy Budd," draws on his shipboard experiences in the South Seas as a young man. Lynn Michelsohn has written such diverse books as "Roswell, Your Travel Guide to the UFO Capital of the World!" and "Gullah Ghosts, Stories and Folktales from the South Carolina Lowcountry." Her longstanding interests in both the Galapagos Islands and Herman Melville led to this work. Like Melville, biologist and wildlife photographer Moses Michelsohn found tortoises on the Galapagos Islands fascinating. Tree frogs in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and the southeastern United States remain his primary research interest, however.
Book Synopsis Billy Budd, and The Encantadas by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Billy Budd, and The Encantadas written by Herman Melville and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1966 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 1911 TWENTY YEARS AFTER HERMAN MELVILLE'S DEATH, THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA ALLOTTED THE AMERICAN NOVELIST A MERE THIRTY THREE LINES AND DID NOT DISTINGUISH MOBY DICK FROM MELVILLE'S OTHER WORKS. TODAY THE BRITANNICA HAS INCREASED ITS COVERAGE NINE TIMES AND MOBY DICK IS SEEN AS ON THE GREATES WORKS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. THE CRITICAL RESURRECTION OF HERMAN MELVILLE IS PRIMARILY THE RESULT OF CHANGING TIMES. THE WORK SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. CRITICS BEGAN TO RE-EXAMINE AND ACCLAIM THE GREATNESS OF MELVILL'S PROSE. BOTH PLAYING A PART IN THIS REVIVAL AND GAINING FROM IT WAS BILLY BUDD . COMPLETED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH, THIS CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED TRAGEDY WAS FOUND AMONG MELVILL'E PAPERS, BUT IT WAS NOT PUBLISHED UNTIL 1924. BILLY BUDD IS A NARRATIVE, A TRAGEDY, AND AN ALLEGORY. IT IS ALSO A MAN'S TESTAMENT ON LIFE. THE ENCANTADAS, OR ENCHANTED ISLES A BOOK OF TEN SKETCHES ALL LAID IN THE LONELY GALAPAGOS ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF EUCADOR REPRESENTS HERMAN MELVILLE AT HIS HIGHTEST POINT OF ACHIEVEMENT AS A WRITER. FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PIAZZA TALES, EACH SKETCH IS A GEM BY ITSELF. COMPASSION AND WITH MINGLE WITH ANGER AS MELVILLE PRESENTS HIS TWO MAJOR THEMES THE PWER OF EVIL AND MAN ISOLATION.
Book Synopsis Great Short Works of Herman Melville by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Great Short Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character."
Book Synopsis Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Israel Potter: His Fifty Years Of Exile written by Herman Melville and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. When Israel Potter leaves his plough to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him. Israel is captured by the British Navy and taken to England. Yet, he makes his escape, and this triggers a series of extraordinary events and meetings with remarkable people. Along the way, Israel encounters King George III, who takes a liking to the Yankee rebel and shelters him in Kew Gardens; Benjamin Franklin, who presses Israel into service as a spy; John Paul Jones, who invites Israel to join his crew aboard The Ranger; and Ethan Allen, whom Israel attempts to free from a British prison. (from wikipedia.com)
Book Synopsis The Piazza Tales by : Herman Melville
Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Omoo written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville by : Herman Melville
Download or read book Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers all of Melville's short stories and novellas, including "Billy Budd, Sailor," "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and "Benito Cereno."
Book Synopsis Melville among the Philosophers by : Corey McCall
Download or read book Melville among the Philosophers written by Corey McCall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to Melville in particular. This volume addresses this silence through a series of essays that: (1) examine various philosophical contexts for Melville’s work, (2) take seriously Melville’s writings as philosophy, and (3) consider how modern philosophers have used Melville and the implications of appropriating Melville for contemporary thought. Melville among the Philosophers is ultimately an intervention across literary studies and philosophy that carves new paths into the work of one of America’s most celebrated authors, a man who continues to enchant and challenge readers well into the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Selected Tales and Sketches by : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Download or read book Selected Tales and Sketches written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-03-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
