Herman Melville

Herman Melville wrote the 1855 novella Benito Cereno, a story about a revolt on a slaver ship, the San Dominick, off the coast of Chile in 1799. It is an adventure story which highlights the cruelty of slavery and the hopeless desperation that slaves experience.... 

Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero....

A ship of whalers seeks the large white whale that caused the captain to lose his leg....

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael", dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American....

In the dark depths of the bottomless sea dwells a white demon, taking shape as the Leviathan known as Moby Dick....

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab....

One day, he recruits a new clerk for his growing practice, the strangest man he has ever met....

Herman Melville’s novel The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857) is a comedy of masquerades and a blend of allegory, cultural satire, and metaphysics. A confidence man who sneaks on board a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day, and sets out to defraud his fellow passengers....

Herman Melville’s classic masterpiece tells the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab....

Moby-Dick is widely considered to be the Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature....

Written some 40 years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil....

Considerada una obra maestra de la narración corta, Bartleby, el escribiente constituye una pieza anticipatoria de la literatura existencialista y del absurdo....

"The Encantadas" or "Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of...

Auf den Ozeanen herrscht Krieg zwischen dem "Empire" und der "Grande Nation". Bei der Rekrutierung von Schiffspersonal gehen die Soldaten...

This collection is a short-story lover's dream. Included are 17 classic works, representing the finest American writers in the genre....

November - the 11th month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, when the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful for that....

Ismael un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero....

Based on the life of an actual soldier who claimed to have fought at Bunker Hill, Israel Potter is unique among Herman Melville's books: a novel in the guise of a biography.....

Captain Ahab is hell-bent on catching the famous gargantuan whale....

The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand. An increase in business leads...