Herman Melville
61) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ishmael's dream of adventure on a whaling ship becomes a nightmare as the voyage turns into a struggle for survival. Captain Ahab, maimed by a monster whale, is obsessed with revenge. As the crew discovers, he is willing to risk everything to destroy the whale.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The first edition of Melville's tales and poems in fifty years and the only one currently in print, this edition presents Melville's full array of short works as they appeared in magazines, private printings and manuscript, along with a generous sampling of his most significant poetry (an unjustly neglected facet of his ouvre). Senior Melvillean John Bryant brings extensive scholarly experience to the task; along with such classics as Bartleby the...
Author
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Unlike Melville's fiction, his poetry remains obscure. The last "collected poems" appeared in 1947 and "selected poems" in the 1970s, and only two books dealing exclusively with Melville's poetry have appeared to date, both published in the 1970s. In this revised edition of his Poems of Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on the poetry through his introduction and notes and makes a case for a revised estimate of the importance...
Author
Series
Everyman's library ; 232
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Gathers all of Melville's short stories and novellas, including "Billy Budd, Sailor," "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and "Benito Cereno."
Author
Series
Livros de Bolso Europa-America ; 209-210
Publisher
Europa-America
Pub. Date
[s.d.]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One of the most widely-read and respected books in all American literature, Moby Dick is the saga of Captain Ahab and his unrelenting pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him during their last encounter. A novel blending high-seas romantic adventure, symbolic allegory, and the conflicting ideals of heroic determination and undying hatred, Moby Dick is also revered for its historical accounts of the whaling industry of the 1800's....
78) Mobi Dik
Author
Publisher
[Blurb]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
"Mobi-Dik - ėto istorii{u0361}a ustrashai{u0361}ushche neotrazimogo sumasshedshego vedushchego nechestivui{u0361}u voĭnu protiv sushchestva, stol' zhe ogromnogo, onasnogo i nepoznavaemogo, kak samo more. No bol'she, chem prosto prikli{u0361}uchencheskiĭ roman, bol'she, chem ėnt{u0361}siklopedii{u0361}a predaniĭ i legend kitoboĭnogo promysla, knigu mozhno rassmatrivat' kak chast' pozhiznennogo razmyshlenii{u0361}a ee avtora ob Amerike. Napisannyĭ...
Author
Series
Works ; 13
Publisher
Russell & Russell
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Billy Budd: Billy Budd is a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797, when the Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and was threatened by the Revolutionary French Republic's military ambitions. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. Billy arouses...
