Herman Melville
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The Confidence Man (1857) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work. When it was published, The Confidence Man was seen as a flawed, unnecessarily complicated novel, and beyond several collections of poetry, it all but ended Melville's career as a professional writer. When Melville's work was...
63) Moby Dick
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FonoLibro les trae esta emocionante aventura con un elenco completo, música y efectos de sonido que les hará vivir la historia de un hombre obsesionado en buscar su Némesis, la gran Ballena Blanca; su lucha contra un titán de la naturaleza, un demonio ó quizás un Dios.
FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro de una de las más emocionantes historias de la literatura universal de todos los tiempos, Moby Dick de Herman Melville.
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64) Omoo
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English
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Based on Melville's travels in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is told by an unnamed narrator who boards a whaling vessel bound for Tahiti. The narrator becomes involved in a mutiny and afterward is imprisoned on the island of Tahiti. His observations of the island, its way of life and the customs of the natives follow. Omoo" is the sequel to Melville's hugely successful Typee: A Peep at...
65) Herman Melville
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Despite the early success of his tales of adventure in the South Seas, Herman Melville (1819–1891) suffered a reversal of fortunes with the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick. The great epic, now recognized as a masterpiece, was scorned by an uncomprehending nineteenth-century audience. Melville's preoccupation with metaphysical and philosophical issues and his use of symbols and archetypes foreshadowed elements of latter-day literature, and modern readers...
66) Typee
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English
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Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three week stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material...
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Duke Classics
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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,
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If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener,"...
71) Billy Budd
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English
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The classic story in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1982.
Physical Desc
1333 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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"These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the early 1840s"--Jacket.
77) Redburn, his first voyage: White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
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1437 p. ; 21 cm.
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English