The Piazza Tales (Melville Herman)(Paperback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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)

'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?

Moby Dick - Dvojjazyčné čtení Č-A - Herman Melville

V románu Moby Dick se Melville zamýšlí nad zlem ztělesněným do dvou protagonistů: na jedné straně velryby, která reprezentuje zlo bez citů a ničí vše, s čím se setká, a na druhé straně kapitána Achaba, který ukazuje zlo zatvrzelé, jelikož je to jeho osobní nenávist a touha

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)

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)(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