Herman Melville
1) Moby Dick
In questa edizione speciale di "Moby Dick" di Herman Melville, vi invitiamo a immergervi nell'epica narrazione della caccia alla balena, arricchita da preziose annotazioni che svelano i segreti nascosti di questo classico della letteratura.
Il romanzo ci trasporta a bordo del Pequod, una nave baleniera comandata dal carismatico, ma ossessionato, Capitano Achab. La sua missione è catturare la leggendaria balena bianca, Moby Dick,
...2) Moby Dick
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee, both fictional yet highly autobiographical. The narrator ships on a whaling vessel to Tahiti, where the crew mutinies and are imprisoned. The narrative is full of his observations of the Tahitian customs and way of life. Omoo is based on Melville's experiences in the Society Islands.
Best known for producing one of the masterworks of American literature, the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also branched out into many other genres of writing over the course of his career. The novella Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile was initially published in serial form in a magazine. It offers a fictionalized account of an American-born man whose remarkable life included time spent as a soldier, sailor, prisoner, spy,
...9) Moby Dick
10) The piazza tales
15) I and My Chimney
16) Typee
Long before penning Moby-Dick, which many regard as the quintessential American novel, author Herman Melville was captivated by life on the open sea. White Jacket adopts a different perspective, focusing on the brutal treatment that many sailors received at the hands of their superiors. In particular, it has been noted that this novel proved to be instrumental in banning the practice of flogging in several branches of the U.S. military.
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