Herman Melville‘s picturesque account of the Galapagos Islands will make you want to abandon all responsibilities and travel there to see for yourself. Melville wrote this...
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The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because...
The Piazza Tales
The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short stories by Herman Melville including: The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower.
Redburn.his First Voyage
Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the...
Pierre Or The Ambiguities
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is a novel, the seventh book, by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The plot, which uses many conventions of Gothic...
The Encantadas; Or Enchanted Isles
"The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical...
Io E Il Mio Camino
Io e il mio camino è un breve racconto scritto da Herman Melville e comparso per la prima volta sul Putnam’s Monthly nel 1856. In quegli anni, preso dalla scrittura di Moby...
Io E Il Mio Camino
Una delle opere più gustose del grande letterato americano, che si ispira a un evento avvenuto nel 1850: Melville quell'anno si trasferisce in una grande fattoria a...
Benito Cereno
In quest'opera Melville si spinge di nuovo in alto mare, per raccontare una giornata indimenticabile del 1799 sulla nave spagnola San Dominique, in Cile. Sulla nave riesce a...
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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published first in London, then New York, in 1846. Considered a classic in travel and...
