Libros de Herman Melville

The Confidence-man

• His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoulders, titters, whis...

Billy Budd, Sailor And Selected Tales

• Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the..

Redburn - His First Voyage

• Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artw...

Israel Potter

• 288 páginas
• A tale offered in the guise of literal biography presuming to offer an accurate life history of the man Israel Potter who fought at Bunker Hill. It presents famous men of the American Revolution - Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Ethan Allen, and o...

The Confidence-man

• This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Battle-pieces And Aspects Of The War

• This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Billy Budd

• The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's..

Selected Poems

• 384 páginas
• Melville is primarily known as a novelist, though critics regard him as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, in the tier just beneath Whitman and Dickinson.

White Jacket By Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories

• The mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature-all of these prefigure his next novel, Moby-Dick. The symbolism of the color white, introduced...

Bartleby, Der Schreiber

• 96 páginas

Moby Dick

• 654 páginas
• Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, "Moby-Dick" is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.

Moby Dick

The Confidence Man

• 608 páginas
• The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville, Fiction, Classics, Sea Stories

• 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.

Bartleby The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall Street

• 100 páginas
• "I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. Academics hail it..

Tales, Poems, And Other Writings

Melville's Short Novels

• 408 páginas
• Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd-presented in the best texts available, those published during Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author.

Typee

• 288 páginas
• Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published..

Israel Potter

• This facsimile of Melville's historical novel appears in a paperback classroom edition, with a..

Selected Poems Of Herman Melville