Herman Melville
Regarded as one of the greatest novellas ever written, Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener follows a nondescript law clerk, Bartleby, who takes a stand against the tyranny of modern life and makes an art form out of nonconformity in the process. A must-read for fans of classic American literature.
Este ebook presenta "Moby Dick ", con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Moby-Dick es una novela de Herman Melville publicada en 1851. Narra la travesía del barco ballenero Pequod en la obsesiva y autodestructiva persecución de una gran ballena blanca (cachalote) impulsada por el capitán Ahab. Al margen de la persecución y evolución de sus personajes, el tema de la novela es eminentemente enciclopédico al incluir detalladas y extensas
...Best known for producing one of the masterworks of American literature, the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also branched out into many other genres of writing over the course of his career. The novella Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile was initially published in serial form in a magazine. It offers a fictionalized account of an American-born man whose remarkable life included time spent as a soldier, sailor, prisoner, spy,
...Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee, both fictional yet highly autobiographical. The narrator ships on a whaling vessel to Tahiti, where the crew mutinies and are imprisoned. The narrative is full of his observations of the Tahitian customs and way of life. Omoo is based on Melville's experiences in the Society Islands.