I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of......More >>>
The narrator of this tale of corporate discontent is an elderly lawyer who runs a profitable business handling the official financial paperwork of wealthy men. He hires Bartleby, a dispirited-looking......More >>>
Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ is a classic American short story, a strange tale of an assiduous copyist whose catch-phrase is ‘I would prefer not to.’ It is joined here by two other stories from The Piazza......More >>>
This is the epic sea adventure, a harrowing tale of slavery and revolt aboard a Spanish ship, is often regarded as Melville's finest short story. The balance of forces is complete, the realization......More >>>
Durante una travesía marítima, un grupo de esclavos negros se rebelan para obligar a que sean llevados de nuevo a su hogar africano. Esta es la base argumental de la novela, que forma parte de una......More >>>
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,......More >>>
Young sailor Billy Budd is falsely accused of plotting mutiny in this tale of treachery, tragedy and pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made......More >>>
Written some 40 years after Moby Dick, Herman Meville’s Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a......More >>>
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