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Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of sat ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pas ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pa ...Show more
I Would Prefer Not To - Essential Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.
Maldive Shark: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #38 by Herman Melville
Category: Fiction
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at sea. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville The voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the great whale Moby Dick, reveals a profound meditation on society, nature, and the human struggle for meaning, happiness, and salvation. Often considered the epitome of Ameri ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville; James Noel (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
In this novel, Herman Melville reflects on evil, as embodied in the two main characters, the whale and Captain Ahab. It is an adaptation of Melville's text in Spanish and English and can be enjoyed in both languages.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Category: Classics
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. W ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Moby-Dick features an afterword by Nigel Clif ...Show more
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of ‘Poetry Review’. 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 diabo ...Show more