Der Roman Moby Dick erschien 1851 zeitgleich in London und New York. Herman Melville erzählt darin von der schicksalhaften Fahrt des Walfangschiffes Pequod und dessen Jagd auf den weißen Pottwal Moby Dick. Der Kapitän des Schiffes hat durch den Wal ein Bein verloren. Daher jagt Kapitän Ahab das Tier erbarmungslos.

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Widely considered one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s masterpiece went largely unread during his lifetime and was out of print at the time of his death in 1891. Called the greatest book about the sea ever written by D.H. Lawrence, Moby Dick features detailed descriptions of whale hunting and whale oil extraction as well as beautiful, incisive writing on race, class, religion, art, and society. The story, loosely based on a real whaling shipwreck, features the unforgettable, vengeful Captain Ahab, who obsessively hunts a great white whale who bit his leg off below the knee.

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Ismaël s'embarque comme matelot sur le Péquod, un baleinier commandé par l'étrange Capitaine Achab. Bientôt, le vieux capitaine entraîne l'équipage sur toutes les mers du globe à la poursuite de Moby Dick, une énorme baleine blanche qui lui a volé une jambe et dont il a juré de se venger. Qui gagnera cette lutte ? L'homme ou l'animal ?

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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.

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First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, this book comprises six of Melville's finest short stories, including "Benito Cereno", an exhilarating tale of mutiny and rescue on the high seas, and "Bartleby, the Scrivener", a haunting story about alienation and loss.

Les contes de la véranda

Une parabole en vers et en prose sur l'exil intérieur d'un navigateur encalminé dans la grande plaine américaine. A

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Complete and unabridged. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff. On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate.

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Herman Melville wrote White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War during two months of intense work in the summer of 1849. He drew upon his memories of naval life, having spent fourteen months as an ordinary seaman aboard a frigate as it sailed the Pacific and made the homeward voyage around Cape Horn.Already that same summer Melville had written Redburn, and he regarded the books as "two jobs, which I have done for money--being forced to it, as other men are to sawing wood." The reviewers were not as hard on White-Jacket as Melville himself was. The English liked its praise of British seamen. The Americans were more interested in Melville's attack on naval abuses, particularly flogging, and his advocacy of humanitarian causes. Soon Melville was acclaimed the best sea writer of the day.Part autobiography, part epic fiction, White-Jacket remains a brilliantly imaginative social novel by one of the great writers of the sea. This text of the novel is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

La vareuse blanche

Un jour, en début de soirée, alors que j'étais au large des côtes de Patagonie, écoutant une dramatique histoire de fantômes que racontait un des membres de l'équipage, nous entendîmes un affreux mugissement, quelque chose entre le grognement d'un Léviathan et l'éructation d'un Vésuve, et nous vîmes une brillante traînée de lumière à la surface de l'eau. Le vieux maître d'équipage grisonnant, qui se tenait tout près, s'exclama : "Là, c'est un Poisson du Diable !". Sont rassemblés sous ce titre, " A bord ", trois textes inédits d'Herman Melville consacrés à la mer et au voyage.

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