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The Piazza Tales
The Piazza Tales – Herman Melville ‘The Piazza Tales’ is a collection of short stories by Herman Melville. The volume contains the following stories: The Piazza Bartleby Benito Cereno The Lightning-Rod Man The Encantadas The Bell-Tower The Piazza Tales. Format: Paperback ISBN: 9783849671693. Available at amazon.com and other venues. Some background on The Piazza […]
Mardi: And A Voyage Thither
Mardi: And A Voyage Thither – Herman Melville Mardi is, unlike Melville’s typically autobiographical novels, a work of pure fiction. Like in Typee and Omoo the work narrates the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. What is new, however, is Mardi’s highly philosophical touch. Format: Paperback […]
Redburn – His First Voyage
Redburn – His First Voyage – Herman Melville Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. This theme of a youth confronted by realities and evils for which he is unprepared-or incorrectly prepared by both family and American institutions-is a […]
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas – Herman Melville Omoo:is Melville’s sequel to Typee, and, as such, is also considered autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whaling vessel which makes its way to Tahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. […]
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade – Herman Melville Typee was Melville’s first book, originally published in London in 1846. Even today it is an absolute classic in travel and adventure literature and is partly based on the author’s actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Of course there is still […]
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas – Herman Melville Typee was Melville’s first book, originally published in London in 1846. Even today it is an absolute classic in travel and adventure literature and is partly based on the author’s actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Of course […]
Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities
Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities – Herman Melville Pierre; or, The Ambiguities was first published in New York in 1852. The plot makes it a Gothic novel and evolves around the tensions in Pierre Glendinning’s family. There are his widowed mother, his cousin Glendinning Stanley, his fiancee Lucy Tartan and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to […]
White-Jacket: Or The World In A Man-Of-War
White-Jacket: Or The World In A Man-Of-War – Herman Melville White-Jacket is a novel that perfectly reflects on the American naval life of the 19th century and is widely based on his own experiences when he sailed on the USS United States as a seaman. White-Jacket: Or The World In A Man-Of-WarFormat: Paperback White-Jacket: Or […]
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land – Herman Melville Who could possibly have foreseen that the author of “Typee” and “Omoo” would at last appear as the author of a poem of 18,000 lines, inspired by religious doubts, questions and aspirations? That Mr. Melville has a vein of native poetry in his […]