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2009 |
![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Bookmasters Dist Serv Join Captain Ahab, an eerily compelling madman, as he pursues an unholy war against a creation as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. In his monumaniacal quest, Ahab focuses his distilled hatred and suffering - and that of generations before him - against one single creation, and pursues it relentlessly. € 12,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Sienkiewicz Bill, Chichester Dan Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors A tale of one man's ceaseless quest to conquer the white whale. € 12,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Herman Melville Publisher: ARCTURUS The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaleships know of Moby Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to take revenge. € 4,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Tanner Tony (INT), Dugdale John (CON) Publisher: Oxford University Press Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid�le is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. € 11,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Markels Julian (INT), Oates Joyce Carol (AFT) Publisher: Signet Classic A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story. € 5,75
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Presents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville. € 51,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Perennial 'Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life.' - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville, including 'Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street,' 'The Happy Failure,' and 'The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids.' Alongside THE HAPPY FAILURE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the 'Summer of the Short Story.' A story from Alex Burrett's forthcoming collection, MY GOAT ATE ITS OWN LEGS, will be printed at the back of this volume. € 9,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Milder Robert (EDT) Publisher: Oxford University Press Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. In this edition are also eight shorter tales, reprinted from the most authoritative recent editions and are supplemented by a penetrating introduction and full notes. € 13,90
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman; Baricco A. (cur.); Meandri I. (cur.) Publisher: Fandango Libri Nel novembre 2007 va in scena all'Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma 'Moby Dick. Il reading'. Quel progetto diventa, dopo quasi due anni, un libro in cui Alessandro Baricco traduce e commenta alcune scene significative del capolavoro di Herman Melville componendone l'architettura. 'L'impressione di trovarsi davanti (in mezzo) a tanti libri, più che a uno solo, è innegabile'. Baricco parte da questo assunto per realizzare una nuova possibile struttura del capolavoro di Melville, che restituisca al lettore il privilegio di leggere, ascoltare, gustare insieme scene, eventi e dialoghi che nel libro originale sono lontane decine, centinaia di pagine. Ecco quindi che l'ingaggio di Ishmael, pagine ricche di ironia che virano spesso verso la commedia, viene accostato alla partenza del Pequod, il lento allontanarsi dalla sicurezza del porto che segna l'inizio del cambio di registro, il portale d'ingresso verso la tragedia. La celebre scena del doblone, quella il cui l'oscuro capitano Ahab convince l'intera sua ciurma a seguire quella che è una sua ossessione privata, una sua privata vendetta, scovare e sconfiggere la Balena Bianca, viene qui rivisitata e riletta in chiave teatrale. Baricco in questo caso accoglie e amplifica la difformità stilistica del romanzo. L'immediatezza scenica, i dialoghi secchi preceduti dal solo nome del personaggio, le poche descrizioni che potrebbero far pensare a scarne didascalie ci introducono immediatamente in un universo che non è più quello del romanzo. € 12,00
Scontato: € 11,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Dalai Editore 'Billy Budd' e 'Benito Cereno' (facente parte, in origine, della raccolta 'Racconti della veranda') sono considerati testi esemplari dell'opera di Melville e, in assoluto, due capolavori della letteratura americana dell'Ottocento. I due testi rievocano, all'interno del quadro delle allegorie visionarie di Melville, gli scontri tormentati tra colpe e doveri morali; mettono in scena epopee marine, con la sfida tra uomini innocenti e perversi: 'Billy Budd' è il racconto di una trama criminale messa in scena per nascondere un ammutinamento; 'Benito Cereno' è invece il racconto dell'apparizione del demonio su un battello fluviale. € 7,90
Scontato: € 3,56
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman; Brea F. (cur.) Publisher: Mattioli 1885 Nel 1850 Melville si trasferisce con la famiglia in una fattoria a Pittsfield: è proprio nel febbraio dello stesso anno che inizia a scrivere Moby Dick. L'autore chiama la sua nuova casa Harrowhead e vi rimane tredici anni. Uno scorcio della sua vita domestica è descritto con grande ironia in questo testo, comparso per la prima volta sul Putnam's Monthly. Qui il Melville scrittore lascia il posto all'immagine di un vecchio burbero fumatore di pipa, in lotta per difendere l'amato, ingombrante camino dai progetti architettonici della moglie, vera pioniera della modernità. € 9,00
Scontato: € 8,55
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Heald Anthony (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 27,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Heald Anthony (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc € 41,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman; Nori G. (cur.) Publisher: Portaparole € 18,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Lightning Source Inc € 4,80
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Dante Alighieri Ishmael, narratore e testimone, si imbarca sulla baleniera 'Pequod', il cui capitano è Achab. Il capitano ha giurato vendetta a Moby Dick, una immensa balena bianca che, in un viaggio precedente, gli aveva troncato una gamba. I- nizia un inseguimento per i mari di tre quarti del mondo. Lunghe attese, di- scussioni, riflessioni filosofiche, accompagnano l'inseguimento. L'unico amico di Ishmael morirà prima della fine della vicenda. E' Queequeg, un indiano che si era costruito una bara intarsiata con strani geroglifici. Moby Dick viene infine avvistata e arpionata. Trascinerà nell'abisso lo stesso Achab, croce- fisso sul suo dorso dalle corde degli arpioni. Ishmael è l'unico che sopravvi- ve, usando, come zattera, la bara di Queequeg. € 6,76
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2008 |
![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Random House Inc 'What has cast such a shadow upon you?' 'The Negro.' With its intense mix of mystery, adventure, and a surprise ending, Benito Cereno at first seems merely a provocative example from the genre Herman Melville created with his early best-selling novels of the sea. However, most Melville scholars consider it his most sophisticated work, and many, such as novelist Ralph Ellison, have hailed it as the most piercing look at slavery in all of American literature. Based on a real life incident—the character names remain unchanged—Benito Cereno tells what happens when an American merchant ship comes upon a mysterious Spanish ship where the nearly all-black crew and their white captain are starving and yet hostile to offers of help. Melville's most focused political work, it is rife with allusions (a ship named after Santo Domingo, site of the slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture), analogies (does the good-hearted yet obtuse American captain refer to the American character itself?), and mirroring images that deepen our reflections on human oppression and its resultant depravities. It is, in short, a multi-layered masterpiece that rewards repeated readings, and deepens our appreciation of Melville's genius. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. € 9,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Parker Hershel (FRW), Hayford Harrison (EDT) Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Melville's long poem Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was the last full-length book he published. Until the mid-twentieth century even the most partisan of Melville's advocates hesitated to endure a four-part poem of 150 cantos and almost 18,000 lines about a naive American named Clarel, on pilgrimage through the Palestinian ruins with a provocative cluster of companions. But modern critics have found Clarel a much better poem than was ever realized. Robert Penn Warren called it a precursor of The Waste Land. It abounds with revelations of Melville's inner life. Most strikingly, it is argued that the character Vine is a portrait of Melville's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Clarel is one of the most complex theological explorations of faith and doubt in all of American literature, and this edition brings Melville's poem to new life. € 24,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Random House Uk Ltd When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he is clueless to the horrors that await him on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis. Considered a failure during Melville's lifetime but now hailed as a classic American novel, Ishmael's story combines symbolism and philosophical debate with gripping adventure narrative in an uncanny and unforgettable fashion. An extract from Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex by Owen Chase?which inspired Melville's own story?is also included. € 11,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Tanner Tony (EDT) Publisher: Oxford University Press This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discuss the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. € 12,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Allyn & Bacon Classic / British English 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. € 11,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Levine Robert S. (INT) Publisher: Penguin Classics The authoritative edition of Melville's only historical novel Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography. In telling the story of Israel Potter's fall from Revolutionary War hero to peddler on the streets of London, where he obtained a livelihood by crying 'Old Chairs to Mend,' Melville alternated between invented scenes and historical episodes, granting cameos to such famous men of the era as Benjamin Franklin (Potter may have been his secret courier) and John Paul Jones, and providing a portrait of the American Revolution as the rollicking adventure and violent series of events that it really was. This edition of Israel Potter, which reproduces the definitive text, includes selections from Potter's autobiography, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, the basis for Melville's novel. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Vega Edizioni € 5,90
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2007 |
![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Reynolds Burt (NRT) Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale. € 17,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Espinosa Rod (ADP) Publisher: Graphic Planet Call me Ishmael. I have set sail on a whaling ship to try my hand at whaling. But our captain has his own prey. We have been traveling the seas looking for the white whale, Moby Dick, who causes destruction wherever he swims. Will we survive a battle with the great whale? € 29,70
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![]() ![]() Author: Hawthorne Nathaniel, Twain Mark, Crane Stephen, Melville Herman, Newman Sandra (INT) Publisher: Signet Classic An omnibus edition of four of America's most influential and thought-provoking novels includes € 8,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman (ADP) Publisher: Tyndale House Pub € 12,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Edwards Mary K. Bercaw (INT) Publisher: Penguin Classics Melville?s continuing adventures in the South Seas?now for the first time in Penguin Classics Following the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, Omoo chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville?s personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colorful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia. € 17,00
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman, Franklin H. Bruce (EDT) Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular -- and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress.Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel -- game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive. € 12,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Melville Herman Publisher: Full Color Sound Fusioni di musica e letteratura, narrazioni parallele offerte da grandi talenti, capaci di restituire non solo il senso e il significato, ma anche l'anima dei racconti più belli. Controverso, inquietante, enigmatico e per questo affascinante. Dopo Moby Dick, Melville crea uno dei personaggi più misteriosi della storia della letteratura: lo scrivano Bartleby. Dietro il suo mite ma irremovibile Preferirei di no c'è un uomo che vuole mantenere inaccessibile agli altri una parte di sé, diventando il simbolo stesso dell'inconciliabilità tra istinti individuali e regole sociali. Nel libro i testi in italiano e in inglese. Letto da Serena Dandini sulle musiche di Lele Marchitelli e Danilo Rea. € 9,90
Scontato: € 9,41
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