Herman Melville

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

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 de chasse ont une histoire, que nous raconte le héros, Ismaël. La traversée en mer devient une épopée pour tous ces hommes, en quête...

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...

"Moby Dick" (noto anche come "La Balena" - The Whale) dello scrittore americano Herman Melville è oggi considerato uno dei più importanti libri della letteratura mondiale. La storia racconta le avventure di un marinaio, Ismaele, e del suo viaggio intorno al mondo sulla baleniera Pequod...

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 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. With godlike...

Set in the mid-19th century on Wall Street, the story tells of a lawyer who employs Bartleby, a new clerk, who, after an initial stint of hard work, refuses to perform any task required of him....

Herman Melville’s classic masterpiece tells the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab....

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....

Moby Dick, la novela que William Faulkner hubiera querido escribir, va siempre acompañada del reconocimiento y el elogio que merece toda construcción narrativa impecable....

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. Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory...

SOVAS 2026 Finalist for Outstanding Audiobook Narration – Classics. ‘It is not down on any map; true places never are.’ Regarded as one of the greatest American novels and Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick is an epic tale of adventure and vengeance. Ishmael, a sailor with a flair for...

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated...

In the dark depths of the bottomless sea dwells a white demon, taking shape as the Leviathan known as Moby Dick....

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

This carefully curated collection brings together some of the most influential and enduring works in American literature.

Unter dem finsteren Kapitän Ahab kreuzt eine gemischte Mannschaft rauer Walfänger auf ihrem unheimlichen Schiff über die vier Weltmeere. Sie jagen den weißen Wal, den...

The American literary tradition has, in a far shorter span of time than others throughout history, achieved a glowing and glittering reputation. From its transatlantic roots it has absorbed the sons and daughters of other cultures, other lands and made them part of her own....

In his ninth and final novel, cultural observer, novelist, and poet Herman Melville gives us a picture of everything wrong with America in the decade preceding the Civil War. Evoking Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this is a story of interlocking tales from a group of steamboat passengers...

Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville, a fictionalized account about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno, first published in three installments in Putnam's Monthly in 1855.

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....