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 Libri di Melville Herman su Unilibro.it)
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2007 |
 
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Mursia € 13,00
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Moby Dick. Con File audio scaricabileAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Black Cat-Cideb € 10,00
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman, Bryant John (EDT), Springer Haskell (EDT) Publisher: Longman Pub Group This innovative, scholarly edition of Moby Dick offers unprecedented access to the revisions Herman Melville made to the original 1851 American version of the novel and illuminates all changes which scholars have made to create the classic that readers know today. The “fluid text” feature illuminates the personal, social, and cultural context of Melville's writing process, right on the page, while also offering fresh contextual notes, illustrations, and other apparatus to make this the most reader-friendly — and therefore most teachable — edition available today. € 18,50
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Benito CerenoAuthor: Melville Herman, Kelly Wyn (EDT) Publisher: Bedford/st Martins Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (contexts, criticism, and Internet resources); and a concise glossary of literary terms. € 12,60
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Billy Budd. Con materiali per il docenteAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: EDISCO € 13,60
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2006 |
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman, Needle Jan (EDT), Benson Patrick (ILT) Publisher: Candlewick Pr An award-winning author and illustrator bring Melville's masterpiece to life for a new generation of readers in a stunning gift edition. A tragic tale of obsession and revenge set against the unforgiving sea, Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK has now been expertly edited and generously illustrated for the twenty-first-century reader. Here are the mad whaling captain Ahab, the all-observant narrator Ishmael, and the mysterious, invincible white whale himself, and here are scenes of peril and carnage, nobility and redemption — presented in Melville's original language, threaded together with passages of summary by renowned author Jan Needle. Lavish artwork by Patrick Benson, one of the finest children's illustrators working today, captures the timeless spirit of this extraordinary classic. € 20,30
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Billy Budd, SailorAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Pocket Classics A handsome young sailor is unjustly accused of plotting mutiny in this timeless tale of the sea. This Enriched Classic Edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations Detailed explanatory notes Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. € 4,50
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Billy Budd and the Piazza TalesAuthor: Melville Herman, O'Meally Robert G. Publisher: Barnes & Noble Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality. Published posthumously in 1924, Billy Budd is a masterpiece second only to Melville's Moby-Dick. This complex short novel tells the story of ?the handsome sailor” Billy who, provoked by a false charge, accidentally kills the satanic master-at-arms. Unable to defend himself due to a stammer, he is hanged, going willingly to his fate. Although typically ambiguous, Billy Budd is seen by many as a testament to Melville's ultimate reconciliation with the incongruities and injustices of life. The Piazza Tales (1856) comprises six short stories, including the perpetually popular ?Benito Cereno” and ?Bartleby,” a tale of a scrivener who repeatedly distills his mordant criticism of the workplace into the deceptively simple phrase ?I would prefer not to.” Robert G. O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Literature at Columbia University, where he has served on the faculty for seventeen years; since 1999 he has been the director of Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies. He is the author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison and Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, and the principal writer of Seeing Jazz, the catalog for the Smithsonian Institution's exhibit on jazz painting and literature. € 8,10
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Redburn. Il suo primo viaggioAuthor: Melville Herman; Bagatti F. (cur.) Publisher: Marlin (Cava de' Tirreni) Nel 1839, a soli venti anni, Herman Melville s'imbarca sulla nave mercantile St. Lawrence in viaggio da New York a Liverpool e ritorno. Dieci anni dopo lo scrittore pubblica il romanzo Redburn, nutrito delle esperienze di quel suo primo incontro con l'oceano. Redburn Wellingborough, il protagonista narrante, scopre il mondo duro e scabro dei marinai, scorge la sua prima balena, assiste sgomento a suicidi, subisce violenze psicologiche e privazioni di ogni genere, sperimenta la ferocia umana nei bassifondi di Liverpool e lo spettacolo ora meraviglioso ed ora angosciante di una Londra più sognata che reale... Assiste tra l'altro a un comizio politico 'rivoluzionario' (ed è la prima volta che si descrive un argomento simile nella letteratura americana di ogni tempo) e nel viaggio di ritorno a New York osserva e 'racconta' le centinaia di poveri emigranti irlandesi che salgono sul mercantile per raggiungere, con poca spesa, gli Stati Uniti. All'arrivo in patria, Redburn/Melville ha compiuto un viaggio di 'formazione' che lascerà tracce indelebili nella sua esistenza. Redburn è la scatola magica da cui lo scrittore preleverà ispirazione e spunti per i suoi successivi romanzi, un luogo privilegiato per osservare la nascita e il formarsi del primo grande autore statunitense moderno insieme a Hawtorne e Poe. € 15,00
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Mardi. E un viaggio laggiùAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Garzanti Una storia di viaggi e di avventure, un romanzo satirico, un'epopea che diventa una costruzione mitologica. Nei mari del Sud, nelle isole di Mardi, una fanciulla misteriosa, che sembra uscita dalla dimensione della favola e del sogno, viene salvata dal protagonista e con lui inizia una lunga e avventurosa peregrinazione fra le isole dell'arcipelago. La vergine Yillah accompagna Taji nelle tappe di un vagabondare in una natura paradisiaca, godendo con lui dei favori dei luoghi e delle genti, ma anche affrontando traversie, congiure e cospirazioni. Un romanzo da riscoprire nella traduzione di Emilio Tadini, artista e scrittore recentemente scomparso, traduttore per Garzanti Libri anche di opere di Stendhal e James Joyce. € 12,00
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2005 |
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The Confidence-ManAuthor: Melville Herman, Parker Hershel, Niemeyer Mark Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. 'Contemporary Reviews' includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers. A new section, 'Biographical Overviews,' embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville's life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville's life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others. 'Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism' is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melville's America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature. A Selected Bibliography is also included. € 21,50
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Saddleback Pub Presents an illustrated version of the story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. € 7,90
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Mursia € 9,90
Scontato: € 9,41
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Il paradiso dei celibi. Tre racconti doppiAuthor: Melville Herman; Ceni A. (cur.) Publisher: Passigli In questi racconti - che si dicono 'doppi' in quanto ciascuno di essi ha una parte prima e una parte seconda, in qualche modo dipendente dalla precedente e tuttavia da essa distante nel luogo e nel tempo - la matrice autobiografica è ben evidente, e prende spunto da un viaggio dello scrittore a Londra nel 1849. Scritti per i periodici 'Putnam's' e 'Harper's', i racconti sono stati composti tra il 1853 e il 1855. € 8,50
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2004 |
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Bartleby the ScrivenerAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Melville House Pub 'I prefer not to,' he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted by Moby-Dick—Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, 'I would prefer not to'? The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine—to, sadly, critical disdain. 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. € 10,05
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Great Short Works of Herman MelvilleAuthor: Melville Herman, Berthoff Warner (EDT) Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, 'It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character.' € 15,20
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Bartleby, lo scrivano-Benito CerenoAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Garzanti La varietà delle esperienze e l'acuta percezione delle realtà storiche, la profondità del dramma morale che egli visse e la grandiosità fantastica, la complessità psicologica, la ricchezza epica con cui lo mise in scena, fanno di Melville uno dei protagonisti della letteratura moderna. Potenti raffigurazioni dei dilemmi dinanzi a cui dovrebbe fermarsi ogni umano giudizio, 'Bartleby' e 'Benito Cereno' sono racconti incentrati su figure quotidiane, antieroiche, che rivelano un disinteresse sempre più profondo per l'avventura: per questi esseri frustrati, inerti dinanzi al 'muro' della realtà, la maturità è silenzio. € 10,00
Scontato: € 9,50
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman; Sergi P. (cur.) Publisher: Rizzoli Un libro misterioso, ricco di simboli, affascinante, terribile, spietato. Che cosa rappresenta la storia della folle caccia alla balena bianca Moby Dick? € 11,00
Scontato: € 10,45
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2003 |
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Moby-DickAuthor: Melville Herman, Hovde Carl F. (INT), Hovde Carl F., Stade George Publisher: Barnes & Noble Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby-Dick is the tale of the hunt for the elusive, omnipotent, and ultimately mystifying white whale—Moby Dick. On its surface, Moby-Dick is a vivid documentary of life aboard a nineteenth-century whaler, a virtual encyclopedia of whales and whaling, replete with facts, legends, and trivia that Melville had gleaned from personal experience and scores of sources. But as the quest for the whale becomes increasingly perilous, the tale works on allegorical levels, likening the whale to human greed, moral consequence, good, evil, and life itself. Who is good? The great white whale who, like Nature, asks nothing but to be left in peace? Or the bold Ahab who, like scientists, explorers, and philosophers, fearlessly probes the mysteries of the universe? Who is evil? The ferocious, man-killing sea monster? Or the revenge-obsessed madman who ignores his own better nature in his quest to kill the beast? Scorned by critics upon its publication, Moby-Dick was publicly derided during its author's lifetime. Yet Melville's masterpiece has outlived its initial misunderstanding to become an American classic of unquestionably epic proportions. Includes an extensive Dictionary of Sea Terms (37 pages). Carl F. Hovde taught at Columbia University for thirty-five years. An editor for the Princeton University Press edition of Henry David Thoreau, he has also written about Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and William Faulkner. € 10,70
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TypeeAuthor: Melville Herman, Hayford Harrison, Parker Hershel, Tanselle G. Thomas Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, Typee was immensely popular and regarded in Melville's lifetime as his best work. It established his reputation as the literary discoverer of the South Seas and inspired the likes of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson. Two common sailors jump ship and are held in benign captivity by Polynesian natives. Through the narrator's eyes we see a literate (if romanticized) portrait of the people and their culture presented in vivid, even scientific, detail. Melville's racy style and irreverence toward Christian missionaries caused a scandal, and critics denounced the narrator's suggestion that the native life might be superior to that of modern civilization. An adventure story above all, albeit one with a philosophical bent, Typee is a combination of elements that even early in Melville's career hinted at the towering ambition he would fulfill with Moby-Dick. € 16,10
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Billy Budd and Other StoriesAuthor: Herman Melville Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP Seven stories deal with a slave rebellion, an obstinate copyist, an accidental murder, a voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and a bachelors' dinner party € 12,10
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The Confidence-ManAuthor: Melville Herman, Bryant John (INT) Publisher: Modern Library “In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the reader in the game to play its parts and to contemplate the inconsistencies of its knaves and fools.” Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society. Set from the first American edition of 1857, this Modern Library paperback includes an Appendix with Bryant's innovative “fluid text” analysis of early manuscript fragments from Melville's novel. € 13,40
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Moby-DickAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Dover Pubns € 6,20
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Moby DickAuthor: Melville Herman Publisher: Edcon Pub Group € 8,50
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Benito CerenoAuthor: Herman Melville Publisher: Palgrave € 12,80
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Moby-DickAuthor: Melville Herman, Delbanco Andrew (INT), Quirk Tom Publisher: Penguin Classics 
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2002 |
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Moby-DickAuthor: Melville Herman, Burt Tamia (EDT), Thomas Joseph D. (EDT), McCabe Marsha L. (EDT) Publisher: Spinner Pubns Inc € 25,80
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The Confidence-ManAuthor: Melville Herman, Hayford Harrison (EDT), Parker Hershel (EDT), Tanselle G. Thomas (EDT), Parker Hershel Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr Long considered Melville's strangest novel, The Confidence-Man is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-nineteenth century America. A shape-shifting Confidence-Man approaches passengers on a Mississippi River steamboat and, winning over his not-quite-innocent victims with his charms, urges each to trust in the cosmos, in nature, and even in human nature--with predictable results. In Melville's time the book was such a failure he abandoned fiction writing for twenty years; only in the twentieth century did critics celebrate its technical virtuosity, wit, comprehensive social vision, and wry skepticism. This scholarly edition includes a Historical Note offering a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication, reception, and subsequent critical history. In addition the editors present the twenty-six surviving manuscript leaves and scraps with full transcriptions and analytical commentary. This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as surviving evidence permits. Based on collations of both editions publishing during Melville's lifetime, it incorporates 138 emendations made by the present editors. It is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). € 14,90
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RedburnAuthor: Melville Herman, Hardwick Elizabeth (INT) Publisher: Modern Library Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction. In her Introduction, Elizabeth Hardwick writes, “Redburn is rich in masterful portraits—a gallery of wild colors, pretensions and falsehoods, fleeting associations of unexpected tenderness. . . . Redburn is not a document; it is a work of art by the unexpected genius of a sailor, Herman Melville.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition of 1849. € 17,90
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Tales, Poems, and Other WritingsAuthor: Melville Herman, Bryant John (INT) Publisher: Modern Library From short masterpieces like “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Billy Budd” to more obscure, even completely unknown works like the epic poem “Clarel,” Melville's stories and poems rank among his greatest and most gripping work. This unique anthology–the first of its kind in fifty years–gathers together all of Melville's tales, as well as a judiciously edited array of his prose poems, literary criticism, letters, lectures, and poetry. Though few realize it today, poetry was Melville's abiding passion; yet his poetry has never received the recognition it deserves, until now. Containing many writings available nowhere else, and edited by leading Melville scholar John Bryant, Tales, Poems, and Other Writings includes a comprehensive introductory essay and extensive, in many cases groundbreaking, editorial commentary. It opens a window onto Melville's writing process–he was a ceaseless reviser and experimenter–and reveals his career-long evolution as a writer as well as the full breadth of his literary achievement. And it marks a new stage in our ability to appreciate not only the work of one of our greatest writers, but the immense dedication that lay behind it. John Bryant is a professor of English at Hofstra University. He has published five books and numerous articles on Melville, and is the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of Typee and the Modern Library edition of The Confidence-Man. He has been the general editor of the Melville Society, one of the oldest and largest single-author societies in America, since 1990. From the Hardcover edition. € 26,80
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