The Confidence-Man, Paperback - Herman Melville

"In The Confidence-Man, " writes John Bryant in his Introduction, "Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the ...

Reducere. The Confidence-Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambig...

Contributor(s): Author: Herman MelvilleEditor: Hershel ParkerEditor: Mark Niemeyer"Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries onThe Confi...

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is the confidence m...

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Reducere. The classic 1940 study of con men and con games that Luc Sante in Salon called "a bonanza of wild but credible stories, told concisely with deadpan...

Reducere. Colectia Mari clasici ilustrati cuprinde cele mai cunoscute capodopere ale literaturii universale. Titlurile seriei fac parte din lista de lecturi ...

Reducere. Moby Dick. Dupa un roman de Herman Melville Copiii adora povestile, iar cele clasice au fost intotdeauna printre favoritele lor. Totusi, uneori, o ...

Reducere. The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enor...

Reducere. Volumul de fata cuprinde patru povestiri in cadrul carora, asa cum afirma cercetatoarea Nathalia Wright, personajele lui Melville sunt preocupate d...

Reducere. Observati un lucru. Ne aflam intr-unul dintre cele trei tinuturi nelocuite care, situandu-se cam la aceeasi distanta de continent, vegheaza intreag...

Reducere. Cand se hotaraste sa se imbarce pe o nava de vanatoare de balene, tanarul Ismael nu are nici cea mai mica idee despre incredibila aventura care il ...

DescriptionThe mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as...

Reducere. The Divine Magnet: Herman Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paperback

Reducere. Brought to you by the long-time writer of Hellboy's B.P.R.D, John Arcudi curates a magnificent collection of over fifty illustrations inspired by t...

Moby Dick is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the ...

Reducere. Novela escrita por Herman Melville el año de 1851, en la que narra la aventura de Moby Dick o la ballena blanca.Ahab, capitán del ballenero Pequod,...

Reducere. "Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life" was Herman Melville's first novel and the work he was best known for during his own lifetime. Originally publish...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Herman MelvilleNumb...

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819–1891) a fost un prozator si poet american, autor al unor romane de aventuri captivante avand ca fundal peisajul marin si exot...

Reducere. "Melville was a born romancer. One cannot account for the success of his early romances by saying that in the Great South Sea he had found and work...

In romanul lui Jay Parini, aflat in curs de ecranizare, Herman Melville, personalitate vulcanica, saturniana, e deopotriva figura paterna autoritar...

Billy Budd si alte povestiri - Herman Melville

Reducere. Moby Dick is one of the greatest American novels ever wrote. If you've always wanted to read the classic, but just don't have the time, this abridg...

Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast ...

Contributor(s): Author: Herman Melville"Billy Budd" is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers th...

Reducere. "Billy Budd" is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst his papers three decades after his death and first p...

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Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville

DescriptionThis volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville's masterpieces. In 'Bartleby, t...

No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timel...

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 ful...

Reducere. "Call me Ishmael."Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literature--the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal ...

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 ...

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Reducere. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two part...

Reducere. In this collection readers will find two of Herman Melville's most renowned shorter works, "Bartleby: The Scrivener, " and "Benito Cereno." The fir...

DescriptionIn this classic of travel and adventure literature, Herman Melville drew upon his adventures in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a...

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world ...

Reducere. Do you want to read Moby Dick? If so then keep reading... Moby-Dick, one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, follows t...

Reducere. El narrador, Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. De igual forma se convence...

Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man wh...

Reducere. Moby Dick is an adapted Upper level reader written by Herman Melville. Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware ...

Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed fr...

DescriptionClassic / British EnglishMoby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby ...

DescriptionIn this novella, widely considered one of the finest works of American literature, a lawyer hires the "incurably forlorn" Bartleby as a ...

Do you want to read Moby Dick? If so then keep reading...Moby-Dick, one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, follows th...

Reducere. Bartleby is a newly-hired scrivener who initially produces great work but slowly reduces his output, declining assignments and responding with: "I ...