Classics Illustrated Comic Books: Moby Dick. This is the exciting adventure of Captain Ahab's fervent hunt for the great white whale named Moby Dick. When Ishmael, a young adventurer, decides to join a whaling ship, he discovers that its commander, the one-legged Captain Ahab, has only one goal, to get revenge on the whale that crippled him! The spine-tingling search for Moby Dick is underway-leaving Ishmael and the rest of the crew to fight for their lives. Herman Melville's masterwork is one of the cornerstones of American literature.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility.From its beginnings in the 1940's to today, Classics Illustrated continues to encourage a love of reading and adventure in youthful minds through beautifully-illustrated comic book adaptations of the world's most beloved stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated books is an inviting start to any young person's library.
Edition enrichie (Présentation, chronologie, bibliographie, dossier et notes)Un jeune commis aux écritures se présente un jour à l'étude d'un notaire new-yorkais. S'il commence son nouvel emploi avec une assiduité frôlant le zèle, Bartleby délaisse peu à peu ses tâches, avant de finir par refuser catégoriquement de travailler. Le narrateur, secondé par ses fidèles employés le Dindon, Pinces Coupantes et Biscuit au Gingembre, déploie des trésors d'imagination pour tenter de ramener Bartleby à la raison. Mais à chaque demande, chaque ordre, inlassablement, le jeune homme répond avec une douceur implacable :
« J'aimerais mieux pas. »Dans ce court roman, Herman Melville dresse avec brio le portrait d'un personnage d'une fascinante ambiguïté. Par son mutisme et sa résistance farouche à toute forme d'autorité, Bartleby s'est imposé comme l'une des figures les plus complexes et les plus troublantes de la littérature.Présentation et dossier de Jean-Pierre Naugrette.Traduit de l'anglais par Pierre Goubert.
Herman Melville, sans doute le plus grand romancier américain du XIXe siècle, ne fut pas seulement l'auteur de Moby Dick, mais aussi d'un bon nombre de nouvelles qui sont des chefs-d'oeuvre du genre. Dans ce moule étroit, Melville a coulé toute la profondeur et la richesse d'invention de ses ouvrages plus amples : les deux récits traduits ici nous le montrent à la fois réaliste, épousant le détail et le sordide de l'Amérique moyenne de son temps, et flamboyant, poussant l'écriture jusqu'aux portes du délire. Derrière les saynètes de Melville se profile sans cesse un encyclopédisme kaléidoscopique, qui convoque de multiples aspects de la tradition pour les plonger dans l'acide corrosif du monde moderne. Mélange explosif des genres qui a toujours pour enjeu une improbable transfiguration du réel quotidien : ces récits oscillent entre la jouissance et la résignation comme entre la faillite et le salut.
The young adventurous sailors, Tommo and Toby, abandon ship and flee into the jungle of an island in French Polynesia. But their feelings of victory will be short-lived. Because they are about to run straight into the hands of the Typee, the most feared of the battling cannibal tribes. Inspired by his own adventures, twenty-five-year-old Herman Melville wrote `Typee' (1846) as a blend of creative memoir, cultural commentary, and good story-telling. He would later tell his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of `The Scarlet Letter') that "from my twenty-fifth year I date my life". Despite being mostly recognized, today, as the author of the classic novel, `Moby Dick', `Typee' was Melville's best-selling novel in his life-time.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: first published in 1851, considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. 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: Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his "savage pilgrimage." Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature. In his Studies in Classic American Literature, D. H. Lawrence reads Moby Dick as a peculiarly American work. The Pequod, containing "many races, many peoples, many nations, under the Stars and Stripes," is the ship of America's soul; it can be no accident that the ship is governed by a mad captain embarked upon a fanatic's hunt. Moby Dick is the "deepest blood-being of the white race," hunted by the "maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness."
Herman Melville publica por primera vez este relato en 1853, en el que narra la historia de un abogado de nombre desconocido que tiene su oficina en Wall Street, Nueva York. La grandeza de "Bartleby el escribiente" radica en que Melville prefigura al ser humano contemporáneo, atenazado por unas fuerzas , sociales y económicas, que le arrebatan su condición de animal libre y natural, privándole de la libertad que supone poder elegir.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Moby-Dick (Unabridged) + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: first published in 1851, considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. 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: Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his "savage pilgrimage." Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature. In his Studies in Classic American Literature, D. H. Lawrence reads Moby Dick as a peculiarly American work. The Pequod, containing "many races, many peoples, many nations, under the Stars and Stripes," is the ship of America's soul; it can be no accident that the ship is governed by a mad captain embarked upon a fanatic's hunt. Moby Dick is the "deepest blood-being of the white race," hunted by the "maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness."
This carefully crafted ebook: "Best of Melville" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of contents:
Moby-Dick
D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick
Typee
The Piazza Tales (The Piazza; Bartleby; Benito Cereno; The Lightning-Rod Man; The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles; The Bell-Tower)
The Confidence-Man
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. His longest novel, Moby-Dick was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
