Herman Melville

A scathing, razor-sharp satire set on a New Orleans-bound riverboat, The Confidence-Man exposes the fraudulent optimism of so many American idols and idealists--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and P. T. Barnum, in particular--and draws a dark vision of a country being swallowed by its illusions of progress. Why is Dalkey Archive doing yet another edition of The Confidence-Man? And why is it doing Melville at all? First, this edition, originally published by Bobbs-Merrill over forty years ago, contains remarkable annotations by H. Bruce Franklin, intended for both the general reader and the scholar. It's an edition we have long admired. More importantly, we believe that The Confidence-Man is America's first postmodern novel--game-like, darkly comic, and completely inventive.

Following the commercial and critical success of "Typee", Herman Melville continued his series of South Sea adventure-romances with Omoo. Named after the Polynesian term for a rover, or someone who roams from island to island, "Omoo" chronicles the tumultuous events aboard a South Sea whaling vessel and is based on Melville's personal experiences as a crew member on a ship sailing the Pacific. From recruiting among the natives for sailors to handling deserters and even mutiny, Melville gives a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century filled with colourful characters and vivid descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia.

Bartleby: En kontorist gjør opprør mot konvensjonene som gjelder på et advokatkontor, og klarer å skake ved en fast og trygg orden fra sin underordnede posisjon. Benito Cereno: En spennende sjøfortelling om et slaveskip i havsnød, der forholdet mellom svarte og hvite virker underlig. Den hvite kapteinen som border skipet klarer ikke å tolke det han ser, og slik blir leserens fordommer også satt på prøve.

German Melvill (1819-1891) - amerikanskij pisatel i morjak, v chem tvorchestve i sudbe udivitelno organichno pereplavilis opyt puteshestvennika i mifopoeticheskoe mirovozzrenie khudozhnika. Osoznanie velichiny darovanija Melvilla prishlo ne srazu, i lish spustja chetvert veka posle smerti pisatelja stali vidny ochertanija togo ogromnogo vklada, kotoryj on vnes v sokrovischnitsu mirovoj literatury. Tsentralnoe proizvedenie Melvilla - grandioznyj "Mobi Dik" - stal odnoj vershin amerikanskoj literatury, okonchatelno lishiv Ameriku statusa "kulturnoj pustyni". V nastojaschee izdanie voshli, pomimo "Mobi Dika", rjad naibolee znachimykh povestej i rasskazov, dajuschikh predstavlenie o mnogogrannosti talanta Germana Melvilla i ego pisatelskom masterstve. V dekabre 2015 goda na shirokie ekrany strany vyjdet ocherednaja ekranizatsija romana "Mobi Dik" rezhissera Rona Khovarda ("Igry razuma", "Nokdaun"), chto podtverzhdaet neoslabevajuschij interes k etomu velikomu tvoreniju, kak i ubezhdenie v neprekhodjaschej aktualnosti i sovremennosti velikikh proizvedenij iskusstva. Perevodchik: Sukharev S., Gurova Irina Gavrilovna, Bernshtejn Inna Maksimovna, Lorie Marija Fedorovna

This version of Benito Cereno presents the novel in a readable and affordable format with light and supportive annotations and supporting editorial content to help you connect with the central themes of the book.

Serija: Mirovaja klassikaGerman Melvill - amerikanskij pisatel i morjak, v chem tvorchestve i sudbe udivitelno organichno pereplavilis opyt puteshestvennika i mifopoeticheskoe mirovozzrenie khudozhnika. Osoznanie velichiny darovanija Melvilla prishlo ne srazu, i lish spustja chetvert veka posle smerti pisatelja stali vidny ochertanija togo ogromnogo vklada, kotoryj on vnes v sokrovischnitsu mirovoj literatury. Tsentralnoe proizvedenie Melvilla - grandioznyj "Mobi Dik" - stalo odnoj iz vershin amerikanskoj literatury, okonchatelno lishiv Ameriku statusa "kulturnoj pustyni".

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man’s intransigence. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.

Israel Potter er Herman Melvilles stadig aktuelle, vittige og dybt satiriske roman om "det dristige, principløse, hensynsløse, griske, uendeligt ambitiøse og i det ydre civiliserede, men i hjertet barbariske Amerika." Helten fra den amerikanske uafhængighedskrig er hemmelig agent i Paris, engelsk krigsfange og amerikansk sørøver, og siden tilbringer han 50 år i forhutlet exil i London. Da han omsider vender hjem, er det som et grumt dementi af den idealistiske myte om USA som frihedens og de grænseløse muligheders land. Israel Potter er den eneste af Melvilles romaner, der bygger på virkelige begivenheder, men det er begivenheder, som er glemt og fortrængt af den nationale ideologi.