Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

In this novella, widely considered one of the finest works of American literature, a lawyer hires the 'incurably forlorn' Bartleby as a clerk in his small firm. Silent and enigmatic, Bartleby performs well at first. One day, however, when requested by his employer to assist with some routine

Benito Cereno, Bartleby: The Scrivener, and The Encantadas (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

In this collection readers will find three of Herman Melville's most popular shorter works, 'Benito Cereno,' 'Bartleby: The Scrivener,' and 'The Encantadas.' Considered to be one of Melville's best short stories, 'Benito Cereno' is a tale of the revolt aboard a Spanish ship. 'Bartleby: The

Bartleby the Scrivener (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

'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 absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story

Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid�le is the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. About the Series: For over

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, aparable of

The Will and the Wilds (Holmberg Charlie N.)(Paperback)

A spellbinding story of truce and trickery from the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Paper Magician series.Enna knows to fear the mystings that roam the wildwood near her home. When one tries to kill her to obtain an enchanted stone, Enna takes a huge risk: fighting back with a mysting

The Piazza Tales (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville's masterpieces. In 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', a Wall Street lawyer hires a melancholy young clerk called Bartleby, whose sudden and mysterious refusal to work plunges the firm into disarray

Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

'Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville's style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o'the'lantern to guide the wanderer's footsteps - the dream of a distempered

Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback / softback)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee...' Few literary masterpieces cast

Moby Dick Or, the Whale (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers

Moby-Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the mad, raging, Shakespearean tale of Captain Ahab's insane quest to kill a giant white whale that has taken his leg, and upon which he has sworn vengeance, at any

Trader Vic--Methods of a Wall Street Master (Sperandeo Victor)(Paperback)

Trader Vic -- Methods of a Wall Street Master Investment strategies from the man Barron's calls 'The Ultimate Wall Street Pro' 'Victor Sperandeo is gifted with one of the finest minds I know. No wonder he's compiled such an amazing record of success as a money manager. Every investor can benefit

Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story (Smith Greg)(Paperback)

An insightful and devastating account of how Wall Street lost its way from an insider who experienced the culture of Goldman Sachs first-hand. On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled 'Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs.' The

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (Dugoni Robert)(Paperback)

Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, 'a novel that, if it doesn't cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.'Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born

Confidence-man (Melville Herman)(Paperback / softback)

Onboard the Fid le, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his fellow passengers. In quick succession he assumes numerous guises - from a legless beggar and a worldly businessman to a collector for charitable causes and a 'cosmopolitan'

Why I Left Goldman Sachs - A Wall Street Story (Smith Greg)(Paperback)

Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick (King Richard J.)(Paperback)

Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the 'best book ever written about

Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many

Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he is clueless to the horrors that await him on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his

Penguin Readers Level 7: Moby Dick (ELT Graded Reader) (Melville Herman)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting

Level 2: Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

Classic / British EnglishMoby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men find the great white whale? A young sailor, Ishmael, tells the story of their exciting and dangerous

The Fund - Rob Copeland

Discover the unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio.When Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, announced in October 2022 that he was stepping down from the company he founded forty-seven years ago, the