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Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 1 182 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1851–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Pierre. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in the Directory. In truth they were nicknames, mutually conferred upon each other by my three clerks, and were deemed expressive of their respective persons or characters.
The Second Edition features significantly expanded explanatory annotations, particularly of biblical allusions. "Contemporary Reviews" includes nineteen commentaries on The Confidence-Man, eight of them new to the Second Edition. Better understood today are the concerted attacks on Melville by, especially, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist reviewers. A new section, "Biographical Overviews," embodies the transformation of knowledge about Melville’s life that has occurred over the last three decades. This section provides a wide range of readings of Melville’s life by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dennis Marnon, and Hershel Parker, among others. "Sources, Backgrounds, and Criticism" is thematically organized to inform readers about movements and social developments central to Melville’s America and to this novel, including utopias, cults, cure-alls, Transcendentalism, Indian hating, the Bible, and popular literature. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Meriseikkailuillaan Herman Melville (1819-1891) pestautui 1843 märssymieheksi Yhdysvaltojen laivaston fregattiin, jonka mukana hän purjehti Kap Hornin kautta kotiin ja kohti kirjailijanuraa, joka alkuvuosien menestysten jälkeen hiipui tuntemattomuuteen. Elämä ja olot sotalaivalla olivat Melville järkytys. Hän kääntääkin katseensa mereltä itse laivaan, sen sisäiseen hierarkiaan, epäinhimilliseen kurinpitoon. Teoksen emotionaalisina myrskynsilminä ovat kauhistuttavat ruoskintakohtaukset, mutta Melville luo myös runsaan gallerian humoristis-satiirisia muotokuvia "pikipöksyistä", upseereista ja muista sotalaivan ammattimiehistä. Ja herättää eloon kokonaisen menneen maailman. Teos on sisällissotaa kohti kulkevien Yhdysvaltojen jännitteitä heijastelevana romaanina ristiriitoineenkin suuri kirja demokratiasta, ja Melville itse Ranskan vallankumouksen aito perillinen. Kirjojen merellä ei purjehdi toista Valkotakin kaltaista teosta.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off -- then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
"I prefer not to," he respectfully and slowly said, and mildly disappeared. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by Moby-Dick--Bartleby the Scrivener is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. Set in the mid-19th century on New York City's Wall Street, it was also, perhaps, Herman Melville's most prescient story: what if a young man caught up in the rat race of commerce finally just said, "I would prefer not to"? The tale is one of the final works of fiction published by Melville before, slipping into despair over the continuing critical dismissal of his work after Moby-Dick, he abandoned publishing fiction. The work is presented here exactly as it was originally published in Putnam's magazine--to, sadly, critical disdain. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.
