books by HERMAN MELVILLE     books:     HERMAN MELVILLE      Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, ... Dover Publications, 2002 Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.             Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics) Herman Melville Pocket, 2006 Brilliant but Difficult Melville is an exceptionally difficult author for the modern reader. His wind-up to the events forming the core of the book is unpardonably long. And he is an intrusive and wordy narrator who can't resist frequent digressions. Still, once he gets to the ...             Moby-Dick (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) Herman Melville Dover Publications, 2003 A Classic; Tough to read, though! True, it is an American classic. It gets five stars for that alone. However, it was written in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century, so it is tough to read now in the 21st century.             Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics) Herman Melville Penguin Classics, 2002 "I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts" Having reached the mid-life point, I didn't "get around to" reading MOBY-DICK until just recently. I'm certainly glad that I finally stopped putting it off. Herman Melville's work is truly one of the most amazing books I have read. As others have pointed out here, ...             Benito Cereno (Bedford College Editions) Herman Melville Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006 The most intense short story ever written A most powerful story by a most powerful author. The suspense will force you to skip pages, just to see what all the "building up" of emotion and doubt is all about. Highly satisfying. Don't be surprised to find yourself thinking about this story for weeks after ...             Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions) Herman Melville W. W. Norton, 2001 great edition here, footnoted text and relevant criticism This book includes both the text of Melville's short works (Bartleby, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd)-approx 175 pages, and approx 225 pages of contexts (which are just what they sound like, historical background regarding each work, something I find invaluable when ...             Bartleby and Benito Cereno (Dover Thrift Editions) Herman Melville Dover Publications, 1990 Bartleby , the Underground Man, The Overcoat This review is of one of the long stories, or novellas that constitute this volume, 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' , and not of ' Benito Cereno'. 'Bartleby'is one of the great pieces of American and of Existensial Literature. It's hero, ' Who prefers not to' in some way ...             Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) Herman Melville Penguin Classics, 1986 Masterpieces There are two great masterpieces in this book, "Billy Budd" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" ."Benito Cereno"is perhaps a third. "Billy Budd" was Melville's last work of genius. It is a complex tale of Innocent and Evil, of the seemingly perfect and pure hero, Billy ...             Moby-Dick: or, The Whale(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) Herman Melville Penguin (Non-Classics), 2001 A 19th Century American Masterpiece I guess I did not know what to expect, but I was surprised by the form and structure of the book. It is written in the form of 135 short chapters, some only half a page long, and it ends abruptly with a flourish of action without much warning. As a reader I want to ...             Billy Budd and Other Tales Herman Melville Signet Classics, 1998 good and evil Personally, I thought this was a great book. This book follows a man named Billy Budd through the end of his life spent in the English navy. Although this book had some boring parts, it was overall a great story line. I was impressed with story more than the writing, ...             Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative Reading Text and Genetic Text) Herman Melville University Of Chicago Press, 2001 Time and Growth The first time I encountered Billy Budd, I was merely 16 years old and incredibly disappointed with Melville's classic. It was unlike anything I had previously encountered, much to my relief. I was turned off by, in my estimation, its excessive length and wordy ...             Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (The Art of the Novella series) Herman Melville The Art of the Novella, 2004 The immortal ' I prefer not to ' Bartleby is the story of one of the great ' naysayers' of Literature. But unlike Dostoevsky's ' Underground Man' he does not scream out his 'nay' in curses. His 'nay 'is quiet. " I prefer not to" . A much more romantic American adolescent naysayer Holden Caulfield will ...             Moby-Dick (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) Herman Melville Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003 A whale of a book Moby Dick by Hermann Melville is considered by many to be the greatest American novel ever written. To come up with such credentials is no meek achievement for a novel, that was floating in wilderness for first sixty years of its existence. The 1851 novel was at best ...             MOBY DICK - KINDLE EDITION [ENG] Classics-Unbound, 2008 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, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and ...             Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Red Badge Of Courage, ... Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, ... Signet Classics, 2007 An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor-all the heroes of these must-read novels have become part of our American literary heritage.          products you might be interested in search for books adventures, bartleby, huckleberry, moby-dick, narrative, scrivener      toavi.com    web we recommend "I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts" randomly chosen book: Volatility and Growth (Clarendon Lectures in Economics)