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  • I AND MY CHIMNEY
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    I AND MY CHIMNEY
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The truth is, my wife, like all the rest of the world, cares not a fig for my philosophical jabber. Thus wrote Melville in 1856, in the house where he had penned 'Moby-Dick" some six years earlier (Arrowhead in Pittsfield, Massachusetts). An allegorical tale that reveals a very unsettling home life and professional life for this American genius, who by the time this story was p...

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  • THE CONFIDENCE-MAN HIS MASQUERADE
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    THE CONFIDENCE-MAN HIS MASQUERADE
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    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. Centered on the title character, The Confidence-Man portrays a group of steamboat passengers. Their interlocking stories are told as they travel the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel's title refers to its c...

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  • MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER VOLUME 1 & 2
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    MARDI AND A VOYAGE THITHER VOLUME 1 & 2
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    American novelist Herman Melville’s cryptic third work about uncontrollable waves of human desire and their ability to set a person adrift in a sea of spiritual, philosophical, and artistic chaos. An unnamed narrator, U.S. sailor (and thinly-veiled Melville), and his Norwegian side-kick Jarl jump ship from their whaling vessel in the South Pacific in search of freedom but quick...

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  • THE PIAZZA TALES
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    THE PIAZZA TALES
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville. This works contains some of Melville’s best known shorter works, consisting of six short stories: “The Piazza,” “Bartleby,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Lightning-Rod Man,” “The Encantadas” and “The Bell-Tower,” and a brief biographical sketch that contributes to one’s reading of the texts. While...

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  • ISRAEL POTTER HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE
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    ISRAEL POTTER HIS FIFTY YEARS OF EXILE
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile is the eighth book by American writer Herman Melville. When Israel Potter leaves his plow to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for furth...

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  • THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, AND OTHER SKETCHES
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    THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, AND OTHER SKETCHES
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The various prose sketches here reprinted were first published by Melville, some in Harper's and some in Putnam's magazines, during the years from 1850 to 1856. "Hawthorne and His Mosses," the only piece of criticism in this collection, is particularly interesting viewed in the light of Melville's friendship with Hawthorne while they were neighbors at Pittsfield, Massachusetts....

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  • REDBURN HIS FIRST VOYAGE
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    REDBURN HIS FIRST VOYAGE
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    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. Unable to find employment at home, young Wellingborough Redburn signs on the Highlander, a merchantman out of N...

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  • TYPEE A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS
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    TYPEE A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEAS
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    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 o...

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  • WHITE JACKET, OR THE WORLD ON A MAN-OF-WAR
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    WHITE JACKET, OR THE WORLD ON A MAN-OF-WAR
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    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 USS United States). The novel takes its title from the outer garment that the eponymous main character fashions for hi...

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  • PIERRE, OR, THE AMBIGUITIES
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    PIERRE, OR, THE AMBIGUITIES
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    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...

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  • BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER A STORY OF WALL-STREET
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    BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER A STORY OF WALL-STREET
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, refusing with the words "I would prefer not to." Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which sc...

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  • MOBY DICK
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    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Die Matrosen Ismael und Queequeg sind im amerikanischen Walfängerhafen New Bedford in Massachusetts auf der Suche nach einem Job. Sie freunden sich an. Im benachbarten Walfängerhafen Nantucket heuern sie auf der »Pequod« an. Kapitän Ahab, den wohl bekanntesten Charakter des Romans »Moby Dick«, bekommen sie erst nach einigen Tagen zu Gesicht. Ahab hat in einem früheren Kampf mit...

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  • MOBY DICK (CATALÀ)
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    MOBY DICK (CATALÀ)
    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 obsesi...

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  • MOBY DICK
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    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    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 ...

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  • BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER
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    BARTLEBY, THE SCRIVENER
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    The classic tale of existential despair A Wall Street lawyer specializing in bonds and mortgages hires a respectable young man to copy legal documents by hand. At first, the new scrivener approaches his duties with a calm efficiency. Then comes the day when his response to a new assignment is, "I would prefer not to." The mysterious phrase soon becomes Bartleby's reply to every...

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  • BARTLEBY
    BARTLEBY
    MELVILLE HERMAN
    Artleby es una nouvelle que atrapa desde el inicio al explorar el interior del ser humano, como se puede apreciar en las obras de escritores del siglo XX como Kafka o Camus, en donde el existencialismo impera, en donde las dudas surgen y alimentan la existencia en base al absurdo. ...
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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    Moby Dick es la historia del obsesionado capitán Ahab, su tripulación y una esquiva ballena blanca llamada Moby Dick. Ismael, el narrador, cuenta las aventuras del capitán Ahab y sus incansables intentos de vengarse de la ballena blanca que le arranco la pierna. La obsesión del capitán Ahab con Moby Dick lleva a la tripulación y a su barco hacia una creciente espiral de locura....
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  • BILLY BUDD, MARINERO
    BILLY BUDD, MARINERO
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Escrita a lo largo de sus tres últimos años de vida, Herman Melville (1819-1891) rindió en "Billy Budd, marinero" no sólo su última obra en prosa, sino una de las más destacadas de su producción literaria. Situada una vez más en el mar y en la atmósfera de la dura vida marinera que el autor experimentó en su juventud, la novela, editada póstumamente en 1924, cuenta la historia ...
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  • BARTLEBY EL ESCRIBANO
    BARTLEBY EL ESCRIBANO
    HERMAN MELVILLE
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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    Esta obra relata la expedición de unos marineros a la titánica caza de una ballena blanca en 1840, en la que el propio autor participó. El grupo zarpa de la isla de Natntucket la cual es uno de los centros más importantes de la gran industria ballenera norteamericana. A bordo del Pequod, bajo el mando del capitán Acab, van en busca de esta feroz y gigantesca ballena. Melville l...
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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE HERMAN
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  • MOBY DICK 2
    MOBY DICK 2
    MELVILLE HERMAN
    Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men find the great white whale? A young sailor, Ishmael, tells the story of their exciting and dangerous trip. ...
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  • BILLY BUDD, SAILOR (AN INSIDE NARRATIVE)
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    BILLY BUDD, SAILOR (AN INSIDE NARRATIVE)
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    An illustrated edition of Billy Budd featuring woodcuts by celebrated artist Barry Moser.   This edition of Billy Budd, Sailor presents Herman Melville’s iconic tale of the high seas alongside illustrations by renowned artist, publisher, and printmaker Barry Moser.   Throughout his fifty-year career, Moser has illustrated more than three hundred books ranging from novels to chi...

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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    nttttt u00abEl lector, sin duda algo aturdido por su larga navegación, se encuentra abrumado en el trágico final: más adelante, cuando vuelva a abrir Moby Dick, por el comienzo o no, aunque ya sepa todo el desarrollo, no dejará de sentirse de nuevo arrastrado por la voz de Melville a navegar de nuevo, páginas y páginas. Es eso, en definitiva, lo que hace que algunas raras obras...
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  • TYPEE
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    TYPEE
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Inspired by Melville's own experiences on the high seas, this classic adventure tale pits two sailors against an island of cannibals After six months of  relentless battering by the turbulent South Pacific, the whaling ship known as the  Dolly is beginning to resemble a swollen and cracking prison. For Tommo, it's been six months of little to eat but stale biscuits, six months ...

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  • BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
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    BILLY BUDD, SAILOR
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly suggestive story. ...

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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    HERMAN MELVILLE
    Moby Dick es la increíble historia de una Ballena Blanca perseguidapor el barco ballenero Pequod, dirigido por el temible capitán Ahab,quien juró aniquilar a la ballena que le hizo perder una pierna.Ismael, un joven que se había enrolado como marinero raso en laisla Nantucket, Nueva Inglaterra, junto con una tripulación dediversas nacionalidades, es quien narra esta historia de...
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  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE, HERMAN
    Después de hacerse amigos, un joven neoyorkino llamado Ismael y un pintoresco arponero de los mares del sur se unen a la tripulación del barco ballenero Pequod, sin embargo, lo que prometía ser un viaje lleno de aventuras, rápidamente se convierte en la imprudente travesía que sólo tiene por objetivo dar muerte al temible Moby Dick: un gigantesco cachalote albino que se ha conv...
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    $225.00

  • MOBY DICK
    MOBY DICK
    MELVILLE HERMAN
    El amplio mar, la constante contemplación del horizonte en busca de la presa, la abigarrada tripulación del" Pequod", ballenero comandado por un capitán tullido y obsesionado por su venganza... Surgiendo de la profundidad de las aguas, como un espectro, la encarnación del Mal: Moby Dick, la ballena blanca... ...
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    $395.00

  • REDBURN
    REDBURN
    MELVILLE HERMAN
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    $1,000.00


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