melville herman complete shorter fiction
Melville Herman Complete Shorter Fiction
Published to Coincide with the Becentenary of Horace Walpole's Death Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes. Yet his energy and fertility were matched by such perceptiveness and wit, and his thoughts are expressed in such a delightful style, that the results are always entertaining, often brilliant and invariably gripping. As the prime minister's son and an habitue of the highest social and political circles, Walpole was well-placed to gather all the gossip of his day, great or small, and to form opinions on the great. As a celebrated novelist, amateur architect and man of taste, he also had an unrivalled eye for the customs and changing fashions of the time. His letter provide one of the most vivid pictures we have of the late eighteenth-century Britain. This collection contains 434 letters, arranged under sixteen headings for ease of reference: Boyhood and the Grand Tour; Politics; The Court: The Man about Town; Virtuoso and Antiquarian; Strawberry Hill his Literary Works; his Literary Criticism; his Family; Friends and Correspondents; Later Years; His Character; Current Historical Events; France and the French Revolution; Social History.
5586 Руб.
Melville Herman Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 1
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." "Mardi: And a Voyage Thither", the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to "Typee" and "Omoo", it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacific. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical reflections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.
1191 Руб.
Melville Herman Mardi: And a Voyage Thither II
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". "Mardi: And a Voyage Thither", the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to "Typee" and "Omoo", it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacific. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical reflections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.
1246 Руб.
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 1
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." "Mardi: And a Voyage Thither", the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to "Typee" and "Omoo", it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacific. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical reflections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.
199 Руб.
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither 2
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". "Mardi: And a Voyage Thither", the third book of the author, dives deep into the pure fiction territory. As the ideological successor to "Typee" and "Omoo", it tells the story of an American sailor who decided to explore the South Pacific. This time Melville masterfully injects the elements of romance, philosophical reflections, and satire, revealing his writer talent in all its glory.
199 Руб.
Melville Herman The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Herman Melville (1819 — 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." Mysterious and unpredictable, the "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fiction genre. "The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches" is a wonderful collection of the author's short stories, such as "Jimmy Rose," "The Happy Failure," "The 'Gees," and of course "The Apple-Tree Table" itself.
1152 Руб.
The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
Herman Melville (1819 — 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." Mysterious and unpredictable, the "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fiction genre. "The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches" is a wonderful collection of the author's short stories, such as "Jimmy Rose," "The Happy Failure," "The 'Gees," and of course "The Apple-Tree Table" itself.
199 Руб.
Melville Herman Redburn
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick." Partly based on the author's experience, "Redburn" is a fascinating coming- of-age story of a young sailor Wellington Redburn, who decides to leave New York in search of a better life in Liverpool, England. It is a moving tale about losing an innocent outlook on life and obtaining life experience through overcoming adversity.
1077 Руб.
Melville Herman Typee
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". Mysterious and unpredictable, the "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic iction genre. "Typee" is one of the most famous and critically acclaimed traveling adventures of the nineteenth century. It is a semi-autobiographical story of the Melville's Polynesian travels, an examination of nature, people and their relationships, and an extensive exploration of exotic rituals.
907 Руб.
Melville Herman Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". Mysterious and unpredictable, the "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fiction genre. The Book tells the story of Pierre Glendinning junior, an athlete and a talented young writer who is about to get married. However, an unexpected meeting with the mysterious woman Isabel threatens to destroy the life of Pierre and as it reveals a veil of dark family secrets.
1993 Руб.
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel "Moby-Dick". Mysterious and unpredictable, the "Pierre: or, The Ambiguities" contains all the good and intriguing features of the Gothic fiction genre. The Book tells the story of Pierre Glendinning junior, an athlete and a talented young writer who is about to get married. However, an unexpected meeting with the mysterious woman Isabel threatens to destroy the life of Pierre and as it reveals a veil of dark family secrets.
199 Руб.
Melville Herman Moby Dick
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry. One of the great American novels, if not the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil. Contains notes and a section of photographs and extra material for students.
2380 Руб.
Melville Herman Moby-Dick
'As a revelation of human destiny it is too deep even for sorrow', was how D. H. Lawrence characterized Moby-Dick. Published in the same five-year span as The Scarlet Letter, Walden and Leaves of Grass, this great adventure of the sea and the life of the soul is the ultimate achievement of that stunning period in American letters.
6019 Руб.
Melville Herman Moby Dick
Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that "reaped" his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his 'mighty theme' - not only the whale but all things sublime - Melville breathes in the world's great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.
386 Руб.
Melville Herman Moby Dick
"I look out of my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic". In his imagination Melville lived as well as wrote Moby Dick, his great epic of whales and whaling. It tells the story of Ahab, Captain of the Pequod, and of his revenge-mission and insane pursuit of Moby Dick, the fierce white whale. Among Ahab's crew is Ishmael, a young man undergoing a gruelling rite of passage and pursuing a different salvation. As the Pequod circles the globe like a latter-day Noah's Ark, so Moby Dick ranges and digresses through space and time, through mythologies, religions and philosophies. It is Melville's great 'romance of adventure' and one of the greatest novels of all time. Издание полностью на английском языке. Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.
181 Руб.
Melville Herman Moby Dick
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg, and finds himself aboard the Pequod, which is captained by the obsessive Captain Ahab. Not long after the voyage has begun, Ahab tells the crew about his secret plot to hunt down the whale that crippled him on a previous voyage, Moby Dick. The crew of the Pequod are also after as much sperm oil as their ship can carry, and the account of the crew's years-long pursuit of the White Whale is interspersed with detailed and encyclopaedic descriptions of a whaler's life. Melville unites narrative virtuosity with a lifetime of sailing experience in perhaps the single most important classic of American literature.
499 Руб.