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The Bell-Tower (Unabridged)

Herman Melville

The Bell-Tower (Unabridged)

Considered to be the least characteristic of Melville's stories, somewhat resembling the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, The Bell-Tower is a dark literary work that explores, though never fully reveals, its central mystery. An eccentric artist and architect dreams up plans for a magnificent bell tower. After receiving approval from the city, he happily begins construction. When city residents begin to notice strange occurrences associated with the project, their complaints...

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The Collected Works of Herman Melvi...

Herman Melville

The Collected Works of Herman Melville

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works – the Œuvre – of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook – 9800 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Moby Dick; Or, The Whale • Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street • The Piazza Tales • The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade • Typee: A Romance of the South Seas • Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Moby Dick; Or, The Whale • White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War • Pierre; or...

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Herman Melville

The Complete Novels of Herman Melvi...

Herman Melville

The Complete Novels of Herman Melville - All 10 Novels in One Edition

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «The Complete Novels of Herman Melville – All 10 Novels in One Edition». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in...

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Herman Melville

The Complete Novels of Herman Melvi...

Herman Melville

The Complete Novels of Herman Melville: Sea Tales, Maritime Adventures & Philosophical Novels

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Herman Melville

The Complete Works of Herman Melvil...

Герман Мелвилл, Herman Melville

The Complete Works of Herman Melville

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Герман Мелвилл, Herman Melville

The Complete Works of Herman Melvil...

Herman Melville

The Complete Works of Herman Melville (A to Z Classics)

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Herman Melville

The Complete Works of Herman Melvil...

Herman Melville

The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Novels, Short Stories, Poems & Essays

This carefully edited collection of «The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Novels, Short Stories, Poems & Essays» has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Novels: Typee Omoo Mardi Redburn White-Jacket Moby-Dick Pierre Israel Potter The Confidence-Man Billy Budd, Sailor Short Stories: The Piazza Bartleby, the Scrivener Benito Cereno The Lightning-Rod Man The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles The...

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Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man

Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man

The Confidence-Man is an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day. This stranger attempts to test the confidence of the several steamboat passengers whose interlocking stories are told as they travel down the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. The novel is written as cultural satire, allegory, and metaphysical treatise, dealing with themes of sincerity, identity, morality, religiosity, economic materialism, irony, and cynicism. Herman...

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Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man

Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man

“The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade” is the 1857 novel by Herman Melville, his ninth and final work. It tells the interlocking stories of a group of travelers aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi River making their way towards New Orleans. Emulating the style of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”, the novel centers on its title character, the Confidence-Man, a mysterious figure who sneaks aboard the steamboat and successively tests the confidence of the passengers. He adopts various disguises,...

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THE CONFIDENCE-MAN (Modern Classics...

Herman Melville

THE CONFIDENCE-MAN (Modern Classics Series)

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The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)

Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man (Unabridged)

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Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

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Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" is the 1857 novel of Herman Melville which tells the interlocking stories of a group of travelers aboard a steamboat on the Mississippi River making their way toward New Orleans. The novel, which emulates the style of Chaucer's «Canterbury Tales», centers on its title character, the Confidence-Man, a mysterious figure who sneaks aboard the steamboat and successively tests the confidence of the passengers. In so doing the masquerades of the...

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Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

"The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade" by Herman Melville. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...

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The Encantadas

Herman Melville

The Encantadas

"The Encantadas" by Herman Melville. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...

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The Encantadas and Other Stories

Herman Melville

The Encantadas and Other Stories

Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819–91) found critical and popular success with his first novels, which he based on his adventures in the South Seas. His reputation was diminished by his preoccupation with metaphysical themes and allegorical techniques in later works; and by the time of his death, his books were long forgotten. Generations later, Melville's readers recognized his work as keenly satirical and rich...

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The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (...

Herman Melville

The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles (Unabridged)

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The Essential H. Melville - 9 Books...

Herman Melville

The Essential H. Melville - 9 Books in One Volume

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge. D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick...

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The Essential Melville - 160+ Title...

Herman Melville

The Essential Melville - 160+ Titles in One Edition

Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of «THE ESSENTIAL MELVILLE – 160+ Titles in One Edition». This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Herman Melville is one of the greatest American novelists, short story writer and a poet. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a...

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The Greatest Works of Herman Melvil...

Herman Melville

The Greatest Works of Herman Melville - 27 Novels & Short Stories; With 140+ Poems & Essays

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer and a poet. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. Novels: Typee Omoo Mardi Redburn White-Jacket Moby-Dick Pierre Israel...

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The Lightning-Rod Man (Unabridged)

Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man (Unabridged)

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The Lightning-Rod Man (Unabridged)

Herman Melville

The Lightning-Rod Man (Unabridged)

Chosen for inclusion in William Evans Burton's Cyclopediae of Wit and Humor of 1857, with an illustration by Henry Louis Stephens, The Lightning-Rod Man was the one Melville tale to be available throughout his lifetime, thanks to reissues of this volume. More a parable than a character-driven story, The Lightning-rod man is a charlatan who tries to profit by selling fearful people lightning-rods during thunderstorms. The narrator has a difficult encounter with the Lightning-Rod man in this...

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The Man & The Sea - 10 Maritime Nov...

Herman Melville

The Man & The Sea - 10 Maritime Novels in One Edition

White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is a memoir of a year spent on a U.S. man-of-war, the 54-gun frigate USS «Neversink» in a voyage from Chile to Norfolk. Redburn: His First Voyage recounts the adventures of a refined young man among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool. Mardi, and a Voyage Thither details the traveling of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale – Sailor Ishmael tells the story...

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Herman Melville

The Piazza (Unabridged)

Herman Melville

The Piazza (Unabridged)

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