Author: Herman Melville

Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahabs quest to avenge the whale that reaped his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical stud...

Part of the Chiltern Clssics range.When Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling ship, he doesn't know that the captain is obsessed with taking revenge ...

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Herman Melvilles The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous sho...

Podé s llamarme Ismael. Hace unos añ os emprendí una aventura en un buque ballenero, el Pequod. Recorrimos ...

This is the only short-story collection published by Melville during his lifetime. The present text is that of the first publication (all but the t...

When Melville completed Moby-Dick, he wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne that I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as a lamb. While it took th...