Herman Melville

American author Herman Melville published his first novel, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, in 1851. The story of Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, and his irrational pursuit for vengeance against Moby Dick, the huge white sperm whale that wounded him on a previous journey, is told in the book by the sailor Ishmael. Moby-Dick, a work that contributed to the literature of the American Renaissance, had received mixed reviews upon publication, was a commercial flop, and was out of print when the author passed away in 1891. It wasn't until the 20th century, on the centennial of its author's birth in 1919, that it gained recognition as a "Great American Novel." William Faulkner expressed regret for not having written the novel himself, while D. H. Lawrence praised it as "the best book of the sea ever written" and "one of the oddest and most wonderful books in the world." One of the most well-known starting lines in all of literature is "Call me Ishmael." Moby-Dick was started by Melville in February 1850, and it was finished a year later than he had intended, in 18 months. Melville drew on his observations as a common sailor between 1841 and 1844, especially those of whalers, as well as extensive reading in the literature on whaling.

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, refusing with the words "I would prefer not to." Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as "unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction" in the Melville canon.

Odna iz luchshikh knig o sudbe i neizbezhnom roke, fatume. Pesn pechali i tragedii. Bryzgi solenoj vody na litse, skrezhet macht i poryvy ledjanogo vetra vryvajutsja v dejstvitelnost so stranits romana. Pekod do sikh por plyvjot po okeanu ljudskikh skorbej so svoej komandoj vyrodkov, ubljudkov i ljudoedov, ischa samoe strashnoe chudovische, obitajuschee vo vselennoj. Strakh - imja emu. Chtoby ubit ego v samikh sebe. Net luchshej sudby, bolshej doblesti i bolshej chesti. Otvaga, pered kotoroj merknut geroi Gomera. Pesn o stradanii chelovecheskoj dushi, probirajuschaja do kostej, do murashek po kozhe.

Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and Also Including "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo ", "The Encantadas", "The Paradise Of Bachelors" & "The Tartarus Of Maids".

Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and Also Including "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo ", "The Encantadas", "The Paradise Of Bachelors" & "The Tartarus Of Maids".

Ein schon lterer Herr, Anwalt und Notar, berichtet von seinem Schreibgehilfen Bartleby, der sich schnell den Ruf eines flei igen und ausdauernden Angestellten erarbeitet. Sein Flei ist allerdings etwas monoton - er mag nur Vertr ge kopieren. Bartlebys Weg ist dann der Weg einer schweren psychischen Krankheit, die letztlich dazu f hrt, dass der Schreibgehilfe sich immer und immer tiefer in die Kanzlei eingr bt, bis er schlie lich dort wohnt und weniger und weniger Nahrung zu sich nimmt. Welches Ende kann das nehmen? Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

"Ahab Von einer Krankheit oder von einer Genesung sah man ihm nicht die Spur an. Er sah aus, wie ein Mann, den man noch vom Pfahl abgeschnitten hat, wenn das Feuer schon ber alle Glieder gelaufen ist, ohne ihm etwas anhaben zu k nnen. Seine hohe und breite Gestalt schien wie aus Bronze gegossen und der unzerst rbaren Plastik von Cellinis gegossenem "Perseus" nicht un hnlich zu sein. Von den grauen Haaren ging eine Narbe ber Gesicht und Nacken, bis sie in seinem Gewand verschwand." Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

"Ahab Von einer Krankheit oder von einer Genesung sah man ihm nicht die Spur an. Er sah aus, wie ein Mann, den man noch vom Pfahl abgeschnitten hat, wenn das Feuer schon ber alle Glieder gelaufen ist, ohne ihm etwas anhaben zu k nnen. Seine hohe und breite Gestalt schien wie aus Bronze gegossen und der unzerst rbaren Plastik von Cellinis gegossenem "Perseus" nicht un hnlich zu sein. Von den grauen Haaren ging eine Narbe ber Gesicht und Nacken, bis sie in seinem Gewand verschwand." Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

Ein schon lterer Herr, Anwalt und Notar, berichtet von seinem Schreibgehilfen Bartleby, der sich schnell den Ruf eines flei igen und ausdauernden Angestellten erarbeitet. Sein Flei ist allerdings etwas monoton - er mag nur Vertr ge kopieren. Bartlebys Weg ist dann der Weg einer schweren psychischen Krankheit, die letztlich dazu f hrt, dass der Schreibgehilfe sich immer und immer tiefer in die Kanzlei eingr bt, bis er schlie lich dort wohnt und weniger und weniger Nahrung zu sich nimmt. Welches Ende kann das nehmen? Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)

Billy Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville left unfinished at Melville's death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's works. Budd is a ""handsome sailor"" who strikes and inadvertently kills his false accuser, Master-at-arms John Claggart. The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, recognizes the innocence of Budd's intent but the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged. Melville began work on it in November 1886, revising and expanding from time to time, but left the manuscript in disarray. Melville's widow Elizabeth began to edit the manuscript for publication, but was not able to decide her husband's intentions at key points, even his intended title. Raymond M. Weaver, Melville's first biographer, was given the manuscript and published the 1924 version, which was marred by misinterpretation of Elizabeth's queries, misreadings of Melville's difficult handwriting, and even inclusion of a preface Melville had cut. Melville scholars Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts Jr. published what is considered the best transcription and critical reading text in 1962. In 2017, Northwestern University Press published a ""new reading text"" based on a ""corrected version"" of Hayford and Sealts' genetic text prepared by G. Thomas Tanselle.

Billy Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville left unfinished at Melville's death in 1891. Acclaimed by critics as a masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's works. Budd is a ""handsome sailor"" who strikes and inadvertently kills his false accuser, Master-at-arms John Claggart. The ship's Captain, Edward Vere, recognizes the innocence of Budd's intent but the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged. Melville began work on it in November 1886, revising and expanding from time to time, but left the manuscript in disarray. Melville's widow Elizabeth began to edit the manuscript for publication, but was not able to decide her husband's intentions at key points, even his intended title. Raymond M. Weaver, Melville's first biographer, was given the manuscript and published the 1924 version, which was marred by misinterpretation of Elizabeth's queries, misreadings of Melville's difficult handwriting, and even inclusion of a preface Melville had cut. Melville scholars Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts Jr. published what is considered the best transcription and critical reading text in 1962. In 2017, Northwestern University Press published a ""new reading text"" based on a ""corrected version"" of Hayford and Sealts' genetic text prepared by G. Thomas Tanselle.

Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab’s quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped’ his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab’s appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing. Expanding to equal his ‘mighty theme’ – not only the whale but all things sublime – Melville breathes in the world’s great literature. Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written by an American.