Fiction - Sea Stories

Meren urhoja: Kertomus suurilta matalikoilta"Pah! Ei hness mitn erikoista vikaa ole. Hnt tulee pikemmin sli kuin moittia", venytti muuan newyorkilainen, maatessaan pitkin pituuttaan patjoilla mrn kattoikkunan alla. "Hnt on laahattu ympriins hotellista hotelliin pienest tenavasta saakka. Puhuin aamulla hnen itins kanssa. Hn on sangen...

Merirosvon TestamenttiMuistan, yht hyvin kuin jos asia olisi vasta eilen tapahtunut, kun hn vaappuen tuli ravintolan eteen ja hnen takanaan kulki mies tynten ksikrryj, joissa oli merimiehen arkku. Hn oli pitk, jykevrakenteinen mies, jolla olivat pivn paahtamat ruskeat kasvot. Hnen ktens olivat ksniset ja...

MerisusiEnp oikein tied mist pst aloittaisin, vaikka joskus piloillani olenkin vittnyt, ett Charley Furuseth oli syyn koko juttuun. Hnell oli Mill Valleyssa, Tamalpais-vuoren juurella huvila, jossa hn oleskeli vain talvikuukausina lueskellen Nietzsche ja Schopenhaueria aivojensa lepuutukseksi. Kesll hn mieluummin hikoili kuumassa ja tomuisessa kaupungissa...

A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson's National Book Award-winning masterpiece--"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick...heroic in proportion...fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)--now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch. Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed...

Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"The conclusion of this tale requires but little preface. Many persons may think that there is too much of an old man's despondency in a few of the opinions of this portion of the work; but, after...

Moby Dick ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9147 Author: Melville, Herman Release Date: Oct 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickMelville's classic tale of obsession and the sea, one of the most important and enduring masterworks of nineteenth-century literature, Moby Dick is a riveting drama, exploring rage, hope, destiny, and the deepest questions of moral truth. "Call...

Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure--a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea--and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him....

In this outstanding work, Ishmael, the narrator, recounts the epic story of the insane quest that he becomes a part of as he boards the whaleship Pequod. It is the story of Captain Ahab, the vengeful whaler and his pursuit of Moby Dick, the...

This deluxe edition presents Herman Melville's classic nautical adventure novel, Moby Dick, in a striking hardback edition with gold cover accents and printed page edges. Described by D. H. Lawrence as "the greatest book of the sea ever written" and now heralded as a...

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"Moby-Dick is a book you come back to, again and again, to find new treasures and delights, a storehouse of language, incident and strange wisdom." -- The GuardianIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States,...

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale Call me Ishmael. Some years agonever mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part...

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale The pale Usherthreadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of...

Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from...

This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of...

A gorgeous facsimile edition of Herman Melville's timeless classic Moby Dick, featuring artist Rockwell Kent's woodcut illustrations and a new foreword by rare books specialist Rebecca Romney. Herman Melville's Moby Dick; Or the Whale was considered a failure after languishing in relative obscurity since...

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick's words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale...

Herman Melville's classic seafaring adventure has been a favorite of readers for generations. "Call me Ishmael" is the iconic opening line of Herman Melville's classic American novel Moby-Dick. Ishmael is a seaman aboard the whaling vessel Pequod, under the vengeful captain Ahab. Maniacally seeking...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library...

A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the...