Bøger af Herman Melville

Ismael, el único superviviente del ballenero Pequod, nos explica la obsesión del capitán Acab para capturar la gran ballena blanca, Moby Dick. El capitán, un hombre de casi sesenta años, lleva más de cuarenta en el mar. Infatigable cazador de ballenas, un día se enfrenta al terrible cetáceo blanco y, durante la lucha, pierde la pierna.La ballena blanca se convierte en su obsesión, desea darle el golpe final a toda costa. Con este objetivo, inicia una larga travesía final. Sin embargo, no dice la verdad a los tripulantes hasta que el Pequod ha zarpado, momento en que Starbuck, el segundo comandante de la embarcación, intuye que se trata del viaje final, que la aventura les lleva a la muerte. Sin embargo, Acab no cede y se empeña en perseguir el leviatà.En esta adaptación para jóvenes hemos prescindido de la mayor parte de la exhaustiva información relativa a la caza de la ballena de la obra original, además, hemos aligerado las descripciones psicológicas de los personajes y las reflexiones de carácter filosòfic.El resultado es una aventura marinera épica, en que se presenta un duelo entre el hombre y las fuerzas de la naturaleza, encarnadas por un mar inexorable, donde vive un ser marino poderoso e implacable.

Ismael, l'únic supervivent del balener Pequod, ens explica l'obsessió del capità Acab per capturar la gran balena blanca, Moby Dick. El capità, un home de gairebé seixanta anys, en porta més de quaranta al mar. Infatigable caçador de balenes, un dia s'enfronta al terrible cetaci blanc i, durant la lluita, perd la cama. La balena blanca es converteix en la seva obsessió, desitja donar-li el cop final costi el que costi. Amb aquest objectiu, inicia una llarga travessia final. No obstant això, no diu la veritat als tripulants fins que el Pequod ha salpat; moment en què Starbuck, el segon comandant de l'embarcació, intueix que es tracta del viatge final, que l'aventura els duu a la mort. Tot i així, Acab no cedeix i s'obstina a perseguir el leviatà.En aquesta adaptació per a joves hem prescindit de la major part de l'exhaustiva informació relativa a la cacera de la balena de l'obra original, a més, hem alleugerit les descripcions psicològiques dels personatges i les reflexions de caràcter filosòfic.El resultat és una aventura marinera èpica, en què es presenta un duel entre l'home i les forces de la naturalesa, encarnades per un mar inexorable, on viu un ésser marí poderós i implacable.

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Herman Melville (born Melvill;[a] August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits.

In 1797, Billy Budd is forced into service aboard the HMS Bellipotent. After arousing the antagonism of the ship's master-at-arms, truth and justice are intertwined in a moral dilemma that will decide Billy's very fate.

Typee is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published in the early part of 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and research from other books. The title comes from the valley of Taipivai, once known as Taipi. Typee was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime; it made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals".

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. While one scholar describes it as "arguably his funniest work", scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it "the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick".

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 his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment and incidentally work some personal experience into the novel. Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. Reviewers universally condemned its morals and its style.

"One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world, closing up its mystery and its tortured symbolism. It is an epic of the sea such as no man has equaled; and it is a book of exoteric symbolism of profound significance," so says the poet D.H. Lawrence in his essay on Moby Dick included in this edition. This unexpurgated edition also includes a real life account of Mocha Dick by Jeremiah N. Reynolds, from which Melville was partly inspired.

First time in Large Print. Moby-Dick, Herman Melville set out to write "a mighty book" on "a mighty theme." In one of the world's greatest adventure stories, a crew of whalers sets out in pursuit of a fierce white whale. Their names ring through the canon of American literature: Ishmael, the narrator; Starbuck, the sober and serious chief mate; and above all Captain Ahab, part Faust and part Job, leading them to the ends of the earth - and the destiny he will share with his foe.

Moby Dick is the 1851 novel by Herman Melville describing the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale, Moby-Dick. The narrator's reflections, along with complex descriptions of the grueling work of whaling and the personalities of his shipmates, are woven into a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Moby Dick is often considered the epitome of American Romanticism. The novel frequently employs Shakespearean devices, including formal stage directions and extended soliloquies and asides. The first line of Chapter One -"Call me Ishmael."- is one of the most famous in American literature. Moby-Dick is considered to be one of the greatest novels in the English language.

Title: The confidence-man: his masquerade.Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02261100CollectionID: CTRG97-B1958PublicationDate: 18570101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: vi, 394 p.; 20 cm

Title: Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile.Author: Herman MelvillePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02261600CollectionID: CTRG97-B1959PublicationDate: 18550101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: First ed., 1st state.Collation: 276 p.; 20 cm

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