Herman Melville

Moby Dick est le nom d'un cachalot que le capitaine Achab traque depuis toujours sur son baleinier le Péquod. Tous les marins présents dans le bateau...

Dans le contexte trépidant de Wall Street au XIXe siècle, un homme de loi engage Bartleby pour recopier des études dans son entreprise...

The life of a Scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do with the handwritten copying of law documents....

"Call me Ishmael." Thus starts the greatest American novel....

Ignoring prophecies of doom, the seafarer Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling expedition that is an obsession for the ship's captain, Ahab. Once maimed by the White Whale, Moby Dick, Ahab has set out on a voyage of revenge....

Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero....

This is the incredible story of the crazed captain Ahab who, consumed by his desire for revenge, drives his crew to scour the oceans of the world for the fearsome white whale, Moby Dick....

With the same vigor he brought to examining man's relationship with nature in Moby Dick, Herman Melville turns inward in this deeply textured novella of an unknowable soul, his effect on those who encounter him, and how little we really understand about our fellow creatures....

A Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copy and any other task required of him, with the words "I would prefer not to".... 

This is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers traveling down the Mississippi toward New Orleans....