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Moby Dick

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671086237
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Moby Dick written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's greatest writers, Herman Melville often based his novels on the remarkable experiences of his own life. Unpopular in their time, they are now recognized as works of unique power and genius. Moby Dick is one of the world's greatest and most famous sea stories. It tells of Ishmael, who joins the whaler Pequod in search of adventure. Instead he finds himself caught in the grip of the mad, lame Captain Ahab and his obsessive pursuit of the great white whale, Moby Dick. The Confidence-Man also takes place on board a ship, but this time on a steamer on the Mississippi River. The Piazza Tales are full of delights at all levels, and these short stories are considered to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction. Billie Budd lay undiscovered for over twenty years after Melville's death. In it he returns to the sea, in the story of an innocent young sailor whose life is ruined by one explosive act of violence.

Israel Potter

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Grand Central Life & Style
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel Potter written by Herman Melville and published by Grand Central Life & Style. This book was released on 1925 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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: It is a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was.

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839039
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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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.

Billy Budd and Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101075864
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant short stories and a novella by the author of Moby-Dick "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," "Benito Cereno," "The Paradise of Bachelors," and "The Tartarus of Maids." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781593082536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Barnes & Noble Classics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains short fiction from the nineteenth-century American novelist, and features his unfinished novella entitled "Billy Budd, Sailor," along with the "Piazza Tales," which includes "Bartleby," "The Bell-Tower," and others; and includes a brief biography of the author.

The Piazza Tales/The Confidence-Man/ Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Piazza Tales/The Confidence-Man/ Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0553212745
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1982-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—and ultimately disastrous—extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower."

Billy Budd, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612195865
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death. Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his most open, with its discussion of homosexualty. In it, Melville returns to the sea to tell the story of Billy, a cheerful, hard working, and handsome young sailor, conscripted to work against his will on another ship, where he soon finds himself persecuted by Claggart, the paranoid master-at-arms. As things escalate beyond the naive Billy's control, tragedy looms on the horizon like Melville's great white whale, and the story become Melville's final, sublime plunge into the classic tussle between civilization and chaos, between oppression and freedom, as well as the book in which he discusses homosexuality most openly. One of the major works of American literature.

The Piazza Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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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.

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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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:

The Confidence-Man

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781435373594
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man written by Herman Melville and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. Melville is less well known as a poet and did not publish poetry until late in life. Other works include Typee (1846), Omoo (1847), Mardi and a Voyage Thither (2v/1849), Redburn: His First Voyage (1849), White-Jacket (1850), Pierre (1852), Israel Potter: Fifty Years of Exile (1855), The Piazza Tales (1856), Benito Cereno (1856), Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866), Timoleon (1891), The Apple-Tree Table (1922), John Marr and Other Poems (1922), The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1923), Billy Budd (1924), and Journal up the Straits (1935).

The Piazza Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789358017724
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Piazza Tales"" is a collection of six short stories written by Herman Melville. The first story, ""The Piazza,"" is about a narrator who buys a house in the countryside and builds a piazza. He spends much of his time on the piazza, watching his neighbors and contemplating the mysteries of life. The second story, ""Bartleby, the Scrivener,"" is about a lawyer who hires a scrivener named Bartleby. Bartleby is a very strange man who eventually refuses to do any work, leading to his dismissal and tragic end. The third story, ""Benito Cereno,"" is a tale of a ship captain who is taken captive by his own slaves while on a voyage. The story explores themes of race and power. The fourth story, ""The Lightning-Rod Man,"" is about a man who sells lightning rods and claims that he can protect a house from lightning strikes. The story is a satire on the marketing tactics of the time. The fifth story, ""The Encantadas,"" is a series of ten sketches depicting the Galápagos Islands. Melville explores the history and natural beauty of the islands. The final story, ""The Bell-Tower,"" is about the construction of a bell-tower in a small town. The narrator becomes obsessed with the tower and the bell, and eventually commits a terrible crime. Overall, ""The Piazza Tales"" is a collection of diverse stories that explore themes of human nature, society, and the natural world.

Feeding on Dreams

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522861857
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Feeding on Dreams written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorfman portrays, through visceral scenes and powerful intellect, the personal and political maelstroms underlying his migrations from Buenos Aires, on the run from Pinochet's death squads, to safe houses in Paris and Amsterdam, and eventually to America, his childhood home. The toll on Dorfman's wife and two sons, the 'earthquake of language' that is bilingualism, and his eventual questioning of his allegiance to past and party - all these crucibles of a life in exile are revealed with wry and startling honesty. Feeding on Dreams is a passionate reminder that 'we are all exiles', that we are all 'threatened with annihilation if we do not find and celebrate the refuge of common humanity', as Dorfman did during his 'decades of loss and resurrection'.

A Herman Melville Encyclopedia

Author : Robert L. Gale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507662
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book A Herman Melville Encyclopedia written by Robert L. Gale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-04-30 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville is one of the most challenging authors of American literature. Known primarily as the author of Moby-Dick, he wrote several other novels, short stories, and poems. With the rise of interest in Melville in the 20th century, critical and biographical studies of Melville continue to be published at an ever-increasing rate. This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to Melville's rich and complex literary career. The volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for all of Melville's works and characters, and for his family members, friends, and acquaintances. Entries on the most important topics include bibliographies. The encyclopedia is more factual than critical, but scholarship from 1990 and beyond is emphasized throughout. The book also gives special attention to the 19th-century women who influenced Melville, for these women have often been overlooked. A chronology overviews the principal events in Melville's life, and a selected bibliography lists major studies.

The Fiddler

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061921505
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Fiddler written by Herman Melville and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

The Piazza

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061922080
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Piazza written by Herman Melville and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntarily almost as rude, turned suddenly from him, walking forward to accost one of the Spanish seamen for the desired information. But he had hardly gone five paces, when with a sort of eagerness Don Benito invited him back, regretting his momentary absence of mind, and professing readiness to gratify him.

The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1788774949
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) written by Herman Melville and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Herman Melville’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Melville includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Melville’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles