Мелвилл Герман

Feedbooks, 39 pages. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.

A Story of Wall-street. Putnam’s Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art. New York [etc.], G. P. Putnam & Co. [etc.]. Vol. II. — November 1853.—No. XI. — P. 546–557 ; December 1853.—No. XII. — P. 609–615 . — ISBN: 1-58734-033-X. "I AM a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what...

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry. The book is Melville's return to poetry after a hiatus which began in 1860 when Harper & Brothers turned down a book of his poems, which is now lost. After moving his family from Massachusetts to New York in 1863, Melville contemplated writing a book of poems on the war, but evidently did not begin to do so...

The plot follows Billy Budd, a seaman impressed into service aboard HMS Bellipotent in the year 1797, when the British Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and was threatened by the Revolutionary French Republic's military ambitions. He is impressed to this large warship from another, smaller, merchant ship, The Rights of Man (named after the book by Thomas Paine). As...

Ed. by Michael J. Everton. — Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2016. — 234 p. — ISBN: 978-1-55481-238-7 Is it the intention of law-makers that good men shall be hung ever?” asked Henry David Thoreau. The question has never been academic, but in 1924, when Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor was published posthumously, we understood better than ever why. An uneasy if beautiful...

Delphi Classics. 2012. — 6466 p. Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing...

"Israel Potter" is the Fictionalised tale of a man who really did fight in the American Revolution -- a man who lived a life of very real adventure. After fighting in the revolution, he went on to be a part of the newly-established United States Navy, ended up serving as a secret courier for Benjamin Franklin Bits of this are fiction, and may be even more spectacular. When Israel...

Introductory Note. John Marr and Other Poems . John Marr and Other Sailors. Bridegroom Dick. Tom Deadlight. Jack Roy. Sea Pieces . The Haglets. The Aeolian Harp. To the Master of the "Meteor". Far off Shore. The Man-of-War Hawk. The Figure-Head. The Good Craft "Snow Bird". Old Counsel. The Tuft of Kelp. The Maldive Shark. To Ned. Crossing the Tropics. The Berg. The Enviable...

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the adventure story gives way to a romance story, which in its turn gives way to a philosophical quest. Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in...

Mardi, and a Voyage Thither is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the adventure story gives way to a romance story, which in its turn gives way to a philosophical quest. Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in...

Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of The Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Editor, PSU-Hazleton, Hazleton, PA 18202. - 545 p. / страниц. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright 2001 - 2012 «Моби Дик» Германа Мелвилла (1819-1891) считается самым великим американским романом XIX века. В центре этого уникального, написанного вопреки всем законам жанра...

Herman Melville. Moby Dick is eBooks from Planet eBook.com. - 861 p. / страниц. Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes,...

Feedbooks, 565 pages. Few things, even in literature, can really be said to be unique — but Moby Dick is truly unlike anything written before or since. The novel is nominally about the obsessive hunt by the crazed Captain Ahab of the book’s eponymous white whale. But interspersed in that story are digressions, paradoxes, philosophical riffs on whaling and life, and a display of...

Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas is the second book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1847, and a sequel to his first South Sea narrative Typee, also based on the author's experiences in the South Pacific. After leaving the island of Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel that makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a...

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be...

Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn...

The Apple-Tree Table. Hawthorne and His Mosses. Jimmy Rose. I and My Chimney. Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids. Cock-A-Doodle-Doo. The Fiddler. Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs. The Happy Failure. The 'Gees.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade,first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book was published on the exact day of the novel's setting. The Confidence-Man portrays a Canterbury Tales–style group of steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River...

The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories. The collection includes what has long been regarded as the author's three most important achievements in the genre of short fiction, "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno", and "The Encantadas", his sketches of the Galápagos Islands. "The Piazza". "Bartleby, the Scrivener". "Benito Cereno". "The Lightning-Rod Man". "The...

An extraordinary novel. I am sure I could not have read it through as a young man. This is a laborious read. There is a mixture of anatomy, physiology, poetry, philosophy and - of course - adventure. Melville even throws in comments on species preservation by discussing whether the whale will be hunted to near extinction as had happened with the American buffalo. Sometimes it is...

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS "Neversink" (actually the USS United States). Based on Melville's experiences as a common seaman aboard the frigate USS United States from...