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

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 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

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

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)(Paperback / softback)

Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback / softback)

Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral

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 (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

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

Billy & Buddy Vol.1: Remember This, Buddy? (Roba Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Together, Billy and Buddy get up to all sorts of mischief, gently tormenting those around them. The family setting overflows with love and tenderness, and the duo's pranks are guaranteed to give readers of all ages a good

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

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

Billy Budd, KGB (Charyn Jerome)(Paperback)

Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

'Breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick ' cried Ahab. 'Thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand ' Why does Captain Ahab look like a man who's being crucified? How did he come by that hideous scar and the false leg made of a whale's bone? And why is he obsessed by Moby Dick, the great white whale?

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

Moby Dick - Foxton Reader Level-2 (600 Headwords A2/B1) with free online AUDIO (Melville Herman)(Paperback / softback)

Elastic (Bille Johanne)(Paperback / softback)

From Danish novelist Johanne Bille comes a tale of perplexing female friendship and forbidden

Moby Dick (Melville Herman)(Pevná vazba)

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and

Classic Starts(r) Moby-Dick (Melville Herman)(Pevná vazba)

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 readers to navigate. This beautifully abridged and

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

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'

Workers' Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain (Rosen Michael)(Paperback)

A collection of political tales--first published in British workers' magazines--selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael Rosen In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appeared frequently in socialist-leaning

Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's

The Guardians of Iceland and other Icelandic Folk Tales (Herman Heidi)(Paperback)

This collection of Icelandic fairy tales and legends comes from the days of the Vikings. These stories of trolls, magic, Hidden People, and creatures from the sea were passed down from generation to generation, told on cold winter nights in front of the fire before being written down a hundred

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