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Herman Melville
1) Billy Budd
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While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville's best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart. Claggart, while not unattractive, seems somehow defective...
2) Moby-Dick
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Ishmael, a young school teacher, signs up on a whaling ship to seek adventure. With his unexpected friends, Queequeg, a cannibal harpooner, he joins the Pequod, captained by the mysterious Ahab. But Ahab is only interested in seeking revenge upon the great white whale, Moby Dick, who took off Ahab's leg on an earlier trip. It's a hair-raising whale hunt where Ishmael's search for adventure turns into a desperate wish to survive!
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Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819–91) found critical and popular success with his first novels, which he based on his adventures in the South Seas. His reputation was diminished by his preoccupation with metaphysical themes and allegorical techniques in later works; and by the time of his death, his books were long forgotten. Generations later, Melville's readers recognized his...
5) Moby dick
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Narra la traves a del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capit n Ahab, en la obsesiva y autodestructiva persecuci n de un gran cachalote blanco. Al margen de la persecuci n y evoluci n de sus personajes, el tema de la novela es eminentemente enciclop dico al incluir detalladas y extensas descripciones de la caza de las ballenas en el siglo XIX y multitud de otros detalles sobre la vida marinera de la poca. -- Amazon.
6) Typee
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Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three week stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material...
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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually USS United States). The novel takes its title from the outer garment that the eponymous main character fashions for himself on board ship, with materials at hand, being in need of a coat sufficient...
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2010.
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An aging lawyer hires a new copyist to help with his firm's workload, and at first he finds himself pleased with his new employee. Bartleby is quiet, efficient and he doesn't display any of the loud eccentricities of the firm's other two copyists, Nippers and Turkey. But one day, when the lawyer asks Bartleby if he will help him compare copies, Bartleby simply replies, "I would prefer not to." As time goes by and Bartleby's strange refusals multiply,...
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Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these — "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno" — first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales."Bartleby" (also known as "Bartleby the Scrivener") is an intriguing moral allegory set...
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[1999]
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From the opening line-"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"-you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a portrait of a real and loving marriage, Ahab's...
15) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
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1984.
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16) Benito Cereno
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2010.
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A harrowing tale of slavery and revolt.
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[2017].
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""Call me Ishmael. Some years ago I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Ishmael and his shipmates search the ocean far and wide. Will they ever find the white whale that sailors call, "Moby Dick"?"--Provided by Publisher.