Böcker av Herman Melville

En sjöman, som vill att vi kallar honom Ismael (vi får aldrig veta hans riktiga namn), kommer en iskall vinterkväll till värdshuset Valfisken i New Bedford. Några lediga rum finns dessvärre inte, och Ismael tvingas välja mellan att tillbringa natt...

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This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily ...

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Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, ...

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»Kalla mig Ismael! För några år sedan, det kan göra detsamma hur många, då jag hade mycket få slantar i min börs och ingenting särskilt som intresserade mig i land, kom jag åter på tanken att ge mig till sjöss och se litet närmare på havssidan av ...

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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is the sixth book by American writer Herman Melville. The work is an epic sea story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a sperm whale. A contemporary commercial failure and out of print at the time of ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last ...

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. ...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd,Sailor; the ...

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A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

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Den stora valen Moby Dick är kapten Ahabs största fiende. I en tidigare strid med valen har Ahab förlorat sitt ben. Nu beger han sig ut på jakt efter det väldiga djuret. En ung man ombord, Ismael, blir vittne till kaptenens totala besatthet och mä...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit m...

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Ismael letar efter äventyr och mönstrar på ett valfångstfartyg. Han vet att det är ett tufft jobb och han får hjälp av sin nyfunne vän, harpuneraren Queequeg. Det de inte vet är att skeppets kapten drivs av ett hämndbegär så stort att det äventyra...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain...' Moby-Dick is one of the most...

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Herman Melville was an 18th century American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer. He is best known for his works Moby Dick and Typee. During his lifetime he was considered a failure, but after his death his worth as a writer was recogn...

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an A...

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Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a univ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!' It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero - the 'Handsome Sailor'...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!'It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero - the 'Handsome Sailor' -...

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Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Captain Ahab's quest for the white whale is a timeless epic - a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a univ...

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"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represen...

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"e;Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life."e; - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that repres...

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A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

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"e;Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life."e; - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that repres...

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"e;Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life."e; - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that repres...

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A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

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A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

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A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

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A short story from the Classic Shorts collection: The Happy Failure by Herman Melville

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Don Benito faltered; then, like some somnambulist suddenly interfered with, vacantly stared at his visitor, and ended by looking down on the deck. He maintained this posture so long, that Captain Delano, almost equally disconcerted, and involuntar...

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