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1) Moby-Dick

Author

Melville, Herman

Series

Graphic classics (Magic Wagon)
Oxford world's classics
The Macmillan classics
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Language

English

Formats

Book, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic

Description

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A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick in this children's version of Melville's Moby Dick.

2) Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Series

The Library of America

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

Pub. Date

c1984

Language

English

Description

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Herman Melville's dark and brilliant late works contain some of his most powerful writing. After Moby-Dick he turned from the high seas to record his keen, bleak vision of life at home in America. Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man, satirical dissections of moral breakdown and social hypocricy, anticipate modernist fiction with their black humor and formal experimentation. With them here are The Piazza Tales - including "Bartleby the Scrivener,"...