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...

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....

Moby-Dick is widely considered to be the Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature....

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....

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael," dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American....

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

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

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....

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....

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....