Herman Melville Novella

  herman melville novella: Billy Budd, Sailor Herman Melville, 1984 It is a time of war between nations, but on one ship, a smaller battle is being fought between two men. Jealous of Billy Budd, the Handsome Sailor, the envious Master-At-Arms Claggart torments the young man until his false accusations lead to a charge of treason against Billy. Complete and unabridged. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
  herman melville novella: Benito Cereno & Bartleby Herman Melville, 2021-05-07 Bartleby, the Scrivener – An elderly Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents has two scriveners employed, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two. An office boy nicknamed Ginger Nut completes the staff. At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work, but one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: I would prefer not to. Benito Cereno is a tale about the revolt on a Spanish slave ship captained by Don Benito Cereno. In 1799 off the coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently in distress. After learning from its captain Benito Cereno that a storm has taken many crewmembers and provisions, Delano offers to help out. He notices that Cereno acts awkwardly passive for a captain and the slaves display remarkably inappropriate behavior, and though this piques his suspicion he ultimately decides he is being paranoid. When he leaves the San Dominick and captain Cereno jumps after him, he finally discovers that the slaves have taken command of the ship, and forced the surviving crew to act as usual.
  herman melville novella: Shorter Novels of Herman Melville Herman Melville, 1928 For contents, see Author Catalog.
  herman melville novella: Moby Dick Herman Melville, 2010-01-01 In Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.
  herman melville novella: Billy Budd and Other Tales Herman Melville, 2009-06-02 A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.
  herman melville novella: Moby Dick; Or, The Whale Herman Melville, 2020-07-15
  herman melville novella: Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales Herman Melville, 2009-02-26 `Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In this short history of the impressment and hanging of a handsome sailor-boy are to be discovered problems as profound as those which puzzle us in the pages of the Gospels.' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself. The selection in this volume represents the best of Melville's shorter fiction, and uses the most authoritative texts. The eight shorter tales included here were composed during Melville's years as a magazine writer in the mid 1850's and establish him, along with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of his age. Several of the tales - Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - are acknowledged masterpieces of their genres. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in nearly endless circles of meaning. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
  herman melville novella: Moby Dick Herman Melville, 1902
  herman melville novella: BENITO CERENO Herman Melville, 199? BENITO CERENO by Herman Melville IN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water. On the second day, not long after dawn, while lying in his berth, his mate came below, informing him that a strange sail was coming into the bay. Ships were then not so plenty in those waters as now. He rose, dressed, and went on deck. The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything grey. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a grey mantle. Flights of troubled grey fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled grey vapours among which they were mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come. To Captain Delano's surprise, the stranger, viewed through the glass, showed no colours; though to do so upon entering a haven, however uninhabited in its shores, where but a single other ship might be lying, was the custom among peaceful seamen of all nations. Considering the lawlessness and loneliness of the spot, and the sort of stories, at that day, associated with those seas, Captain Delano's surprise might have deepened into some uneasiness had he not been a person of a singularly undistrustful good nature, not liable, except on extraordinary and repeated excitement, and hardly then, to indulge in personal alarms, any way involving the imputation of malign evil in man. Whether, in view of what humanity is capable, such a trait implies, along with a benevolent heart, more than ordinary quickness and accuracy of intellectual perception, may be left to the wise to determine. But whatever misgivings might have obtruded on first seeing the stranger would almost, in any seaman's mind, have been dissipated by observing that the ship, in navigating into the harbour, was drawing too near the land, for her own safety's sake, owing to a sunken reef making out off her bow. This seemed to prove her a stranger, indeed, not only to the sealer, but the island; consequently, she could be no wonted freebooter on that ocean. With no small interest, Captain Delano continued to watch her- a proceeding not much facilitated by the vapours partly mantling the hull, through which the far matin light from her cabin streamed equivocally enough; much like the sunby this time crescented on the rim of the horizon, and apparently, in company with the strange ship, entering the harbour- which, wimpled by the same low, creeping clouds, showed not unlike a Lima intriguante's one sinister eye peering across the Plaza from the Indian loop-hole of her dusk saya-y-manta. It might have been but a deception of the vapours, but, the longer the stranger was watched, the more singular appeared her manoeuvres. Ere long it seemed hard to decide whether she meant to come in or no- what she wanted, or what she was about. The wind, which had breezed up a little during the night, was now extremely light and baffling, which the more increased the apparent uncertainty of her movements.
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  herman melville novella: The Bell-Tower Herman Melville, 2014-04-15 Bannadonna is an eccentric artist and architect who dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, Bannadonna happily begins construction, but local citizens begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the bell-tower, and complaints eventually reach the city magistrates. While touring the magistrates around the tower, Bannadonna shows off his work and readily answers their questions, but one curiosity remains unanswered—what lies beneath the shroud in the bell-tower. “The Bell-Tower” is a dark literary work that explores a mystery that is never fully revealed. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
  herman melville novella: The Piazza Tales Herman Melville, 1856 With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele- When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.
  herman melville novella: Mardi, and a Voyage Thither Herman Melville, 1923 The third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the adventure story gives way to a romance story, which in its turn gives way to a philosophical quest.
  herman melville novella: Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville, 2015-04-01 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by Herman Melville about a strange man with a strange phrase: I would prefer not to. This American short story is now one of the most famous of American short stories and has been adapted into many variations. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
  herman melville novella: Best of Herman Melville Herman Melville, 2007-11-01 Includes Billy Budd read by Christopher Timothy and Moby Dick read by Bob Sessions.
  herman melville novella: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe, 2024-02-05 The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, a story by Edgar Allan Poe, recounts the adventure of Pym, who embarks clandestinely on a whaler. After a mutiny and various adversities, including cannibalism and natural disasters, the story culminates in a mysterious and inconclusive encounter at the South Pole.
  herman melville novella: Great Short Works of Herman Melville Herman Melville, 1969 A complete collection of Melville's short works of fiction that includes The Encantadas, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd
  herman melville novella: The Letters of Herman Melville Herman Melville, 1980
  herman melville novella: Shorter Novels of Herman Melville Herman Melville, 1956 Contents: Benito Cereno; Bartleby the Scrivener; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Billy Budd, Foretopman.
  herman melville novella: Sea-changes: Melville - Forster - Britten Hanna Rochlitz, 2012 E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirmsthe Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships.This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his lifewritings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.
  herman melville novella: The Empire of Necessity Greg Grandin, 2014-01-14 Documents an early nineteenth-century event that inspired Herman Melville's Beneto Cereno, tracing the cultural, economic, and religious clash that occurred aboard a distressed Spanish ship of West African pirates.
  herman melville novella: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Herman Melville, 1866 Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American Civil War and their aftermath. Critics at the time were at best respectful and often sharply critical of Melville's unorthodox style. The book had sold only 486 copies by 1868 and recovered barely half of its publications costs.[1] Not until the latter half of the twentieth century did Battle-Pieces become regarded as one of the most important group of poems on the American Civil War.
  herman melville novella: Melville among the Philosophers Corey McCall, Tom Nurmi, 2017-10-18 This book is aimed at both philosophers and scholars of American literature who wish to reexamine the philosophical depth of Melville’s writings. Contributions deal with various philosophical aspects of Melville’s work, including well-known texts such as Moby-Dick as well as lesser-known works such as Pierre, “The Encantadas,” and Clarel.
  herman melville novella: Billy Budd Herman Melville, 1891
  herman melville novella: Selected Poems of Herman Melville Herman Melville, 2004 Whitman and Dickinson are the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, but who is the third? Some critics say Whittier, others say Poe, and these days an increasing number say Herman Melville. The revaluation of Melville's poetry is due in large part to the influence of this landmark volume, for Melville the poet has never found a more judicious, eloquent, or persuasive champion than Robert Penn Warren.
  herman melville novella: The Old Man And The Sea Ernest Hemingway, 2012-02-14 Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, has gone 84 days without catching a fish. Confident that his bad luck is at an end, he sets off alone, far into the Gulf Stream, to fish. Santiago’s faith is rewarded, and he quickly hooks a marlin...a marlin so big he is unable to pull it in and finds himself being pulled by the giant fish for two days and two nights. HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
  herman melville novella: Redburn Illustrated Herman Melville, 2021-04-13 Redburn: His First Voyage is the fourth book by the American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. The book is semi-autobiographical and recounts the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Melville wrote Redburn in less than ten weeks. While one scholar describes it as arguably his funniest work, scholar F. O. Matthiessen calls it the most moving of its author's books before Moby-Dick
  herman melville novella: Benito Cereno Herman Melville, 2024
  herman melville novella: Bartleby, the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street Herman Melville, 2021-10-08 Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, refusing with the words I would prefer not to. Numerous critical essays have been published about the story, which scholar Robert Milder describes as unquestionably the masterpiece of the short fiction in the Melville canon.
  herman melville novella: Bartleby, the Scrivener Herman Melville, 2009-11 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?
  herman melville novella: Pierre, or, The Ambiguities Herman Melville, 2021-10-08 Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.
  herman melville novella: The Complete Shorter Fiction Herman Melville, 1997 Gathers all of Melville's short stories and novellas, including Billy Budd, Sailor, Bartleby, the Scrivener, and Benito Cereno
  herman melville novella: Benito Cereno, Bartleby: the Scrivener, And, the Encantadas Herman Melville, 2005-01-01 Benito Cereno, is a harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship and is regarded by many as Melville's finest short story. First written as magazine pieces and later published in The Piazza Tales, Bartleby (also called Bartleby, the Scrivener) is a haunting moral allegory set in the business world of 19th century New York. The Encantadas, or The Enchanted Isles, is a sea story.
  herman melville novella: Herman Melville Collected Works Herman Melville, 2024-08-01 Embark on a literary voyage with Hermann Melville, the scribe of the seas, whose pen charted the depths of the human condition. His masterwork, Moby-Dick, is not merely a tale but an odyssey that grips the soul and plunges you into the tumultuous waters of obsession and the unknown. Rediscover the Classics: Moby-Dick: A battle against the unfathomable, a journey that will anchor in your memory, Bartleby, the Scrivener: A narrative of defiance against life's drudgery, Billy Budd: A profound drama of innocence and justice on the high seas. This e-book presents the works of this famous and brilliant writer: - Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street - Billy Budd, Foretopman - The Piazza Tales - The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - Typee: A Romance of the South Seas - Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War - Pierre; or The Ambiguities - Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas - Redburn -The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches - The Chase - Typee - I and My Chimney - Mardi: and A Voyage Thither - Israel Potter - John Marr and Other Poems - I and my Chimney - Typee - Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas - Sea Pieces - Poems From Timoleon - White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War etc. Melville's works are essential for every bibliophile. His works offer profound insights and timeless themes, wrapped in captivating storytelling. Prepare for a reading experience that will challenge and inspire you. Read Melville – unleash your imagination.
  herman melville novella: The Encantadas Herman Melville, 2021-11-30 A standalone hardcover edition of Herman Melville's novelette in ten sketches, The Encantadas, with original illustrations by Eric Tonzola and a new introduction by Elizabeth Hennessy, author of On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden.
  herman melville novella: Melville's Short Novels Herman Melville, 2002 Contains a collection of short novels by Herman Melville, with critical explanatory annotation, and includes the stories: Bartleby, The Scrivener, Billy Budd, and Benito Cereno.
  herman melville novella: Mocha Dick Jeremiah N. Reynolds, 2013-04-06 Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific, the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.
  herman melville novella: Moby-Dick Herman Melville, 1967 In this adaptation of Melville's masterpiece, McCaughrean recounts the tale of the obsessed Captain Ahab, as he pursues the great white whale--a creature as vast and dangerous as the sea itself. 55 illustrations, 25 in color.
  herman melville novella: The Piazza Tales Herman Melville, 2021-10-08 The Piazza Tales is a collection of six short stories by American writer Herman Melville. This works contains some of Melville's best known shorter works, consisting of six short stories: The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas and The Bell-Tower, and a brief biographical sketch that contributes to one's reading of the texts. While the sea is the natural setting for many of Melville's best known works, only two of these stories take place on the waters – The Encantadas and Benito Cereno. (Goodreads)
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