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An allegorical novel about the harsh life of a seaman onboard a nineteenth-century U.S. Navy frigate.

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Herman Melville's second book, Omoo, begins where his first book, Typee, leaves off. As the author described the book, "It embraces adventures in the South Seas (of a totally different character from 'Typee') and includes an eventful cruise in an English Colonial Whaleman (a Sydney Ship) and a comical residence on the island of Tahiti." The popular success of Melville's first book encouraged him to write this sequel, hoping it would be "a fitt...

In this new reprint of the six stories that comprised the 1856 edition of The Piazza Tales, the editors of the acclaimed Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville have used the original magazine versions for five of the six stories in order to present the most accurate texts of these works. Here, in such famous stories as "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles", we find Melville's imagination a...

Melville's second book, Omoo, begins where his first book, Typee, left off. As the author said, It embraces adventures in the South Seas (of a totally different character from 'Typee') and includes an eventful cruise in an English Colonial Whaleman (a Sydney Ship) and a comical residence on the island of Tahiti. The popular success of his first novel encouraged Melville to write a sequel, hoping it would be a fitting successor. Typee describes...

A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.

Three CDs. Running time: 4hrs.

A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling maritime adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and vengeful sea captain, against the great white whale that came to dominate his life.

Presented as narratives of his own South Sea experiences, Melville's first two books had roused incredulity in many readers. Their disbelief, he declared, had been "the main inducement" in altering his plan for his third book, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither (1849). Melville wanted to exploit the "rich poetical material" of Polynesia and also to escape feeling "irked, cramped, & fettered" by a narrative of facts. "I began to feel . . . a longing t...

A sailor narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee.Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have...

It is a time of war between nations, but on one ship, a smaller battle is being fought between two men. Jealous of Billy Budd, the "Handsome Sailor", the envious Master-At-Arms Claggart torments the young man until his false accusations lead to a charge of treason against Billy. Complete and unabridged.

These four landmark novels of nineteenth-century American literature have gained a permanent place in our culture as great classics. They are not only part of our national heritage, but masterpieces of world literature whose deep and lasting influence is felt to this day.The Scarlet Letter vividly records America's moral and historical roots in Puritan New England and masterfully re-creates a society's preoccupation with sin, guilt, and pride....

Classic / British English Moby 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 trip. This Pack contains a Book and MP3

âEURzIch möchte lieber nicht.âEURoe Bartleby ist der Held aller Neinsager. Als Schreiber in einer New Yorker Kanzlei ist er eigentlich der ideale Angestellte: hingebungsvoll, fleißig, rechtschaffen und still. Doch leise und sanftmütig spricht er auch, immer wieder, den einen Satz, der seinen Vorgesetzten in die Verzweiflung treibt. Bartleby möchte lieber keine Abschriften prüfen. Er möchte lieber keine Botengänge übernehmen. Schließlich möchte...

Eine große tragische Geschichte über Freiheit und Sklaverei Amaso Delano, amerikanischer Kapitän eines Robbenfängers, versucht dem in eine Flaute geratenen spanischen Sklavenschiff »San Dominick« zu helfen. Obwohl ihn die Situation an Bord befremdet, bemerkt er nicht, dass die afrikanischen Sklaven längst Herren des Schiffes sind und Kapitän Benito Cereno, der um sein Leben fürchtet, nur noch zum Schein dem fremden Gast gegenüber sein Amt bek...

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