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Un viejo granjero, aficionado a fumar en pipa ante la chimenea de su casa, y poco amigo del trabajo, de los cambios y de las modernidades, se ve acosado por todos para que derribe la inmensa chimenea y remodele la casa con un sentido practico y economico. Su mujer, sus hijas, los vecinos, los arquitectos y constructores intentan convencerlo. Verdaderamente, la chimenea es descomunal, desproporcionada: toda la casa parece haberse construido a su alrededor y el hombre se ve acosado por razonamientos que parecen incontestables. Pero el viejo opone otras razones: la finca tiene su roble, su camino? y su chimenea. Sin ellos perderia su caracter, y el a la compañera de sus tardes de pipa y abandono. Una genial novela corta, llena de humor, contra la uniformidad de las convenciones modernas.

Bartebly vive en su oficina, silencioso, aislado y sin pasado...Herman Melville (1819-1891) es uno de los más importantes escritores de la literatura estadounidense. En esta obra, pequeña en extensión pero un referente en la literatura universal, crea un personaje anodino, sin experiencias, sin motivaciones, al que nada ni nadie da o resta sentido a su vida cotidiana. Quien narra su historia es nada menos que su jefe, un hombre que vera rota la aparente calma de su vida.

Una noche de diciembre, mientras el dueño de la casa lee una vieja novela de fantasmas que sugestiona su imaginación, queda aterrado por un cric crac procedente de una mesa de tres patas que pocos días antes el mismo habia rescatado del desvan de la casa. Sus hijas enseguida se convencen de la presencia de espiritus que merodean entre las patas de la mesita. la madre, en cambio, mujer practica y realista, se enfada por la credulidad de todos y busca los hechos fisicos en la prosaica realidad. Nadie sin embargo tendra toda la razon porque la naturaleza esconde a veces toda la magia.El genio de Melville, con su fino sentido del humor, se burla de los credulos que buscan espectros donde solo existe lo que desconocemos.

Call me Ishmael. These three famous words begin one of the most epic novels ever written, a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew and an elusive white whale named Moby-Dick. The massive original, however, can be very hard for young readers to navigate. This beautifully abridged and adventure-filled version will thrill children and whet their appetite for the complete work - when they are ready to tackle it.

Moby Dick es la novela más ambiciosa de Melville. Narra la obsesión de un...

Herman Melville's final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death. Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge, after its publication in 1924, as one of Melville's best-loved books--and one of his most open, with its discussion of homosexualty. In it, Melville returns to the sea to tell the story of Billy, a cheerful, hard working, and handsome young sailor, conscripted to work against his will on another ship, where he soon finds himself persecuted by Claggart, the paranoid master-at-arms. As things escalate beyond the naive Billy's control, tragedy looms on the horizon like Melville's great white whale, and the story become Melville's final, sublime plunge into the classic tussle between civilization and chaos, between oppression and freedom, as well as the book in which he discusses homosexuality most openly. One of the major works of American literature

Complete and unabridged, Moby Dick is Herman Melville's classic tale of nature versus man.Journey to the heart of the sea with this larger-than-life classic. Regarded as the Great American Novel, Moby Dick is the ultimate tale of seeking vengeance. Narrated by the crew member Ishmael, this epic whaling adventure follows the crew of the Pequod, as its captain, Ahab, descends deeper and deeper into madness on his quest to find and kill the white whale that maimed him. Beyond the surface-of ship life, whaling, and the hunt for the elusive Moby Dick-are allegorical references to life, and even the universe, in this masterpiece by Herman Melville.Complete and unabridged, this newly designed edition features an introduction by American literature scholar Christopher McBride and a timeline of the life and times of Herman Melville.Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, the Chartwell Classics series includes beautifully presented works and collections from some of the most important authors in literary history. Chartwell Classics are the editions of choice for the most discerning literature buffs.Other titles in the Chartwell Classics Series include: Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft; Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales; Complete Novels of Jane Austen; Complete Sherlock Holme; Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe; Complete Works of William Shakespeare; Divine Comedy; Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales;The Essential Tales of H.P. Lovecraft; The Federalist Papers; The Inferno; The Call of the Wild and White Fang; The Odyssey; Pride and Prejudice; The Essential Grimm's Fairy Tales; Emma; The Great Gatsby; The Secret Garden; Anne of Green Gables; The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; The Phantom of the Opera; The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital; Republic; Frankenstein; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; The Picture of Dorian Gray; Meditations; Wuthering Heights; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass; A Tales of Two Cities; Beowulf; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Little Women

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Now the classic novel by Herman Melville is an illustrated storybook perfect for kids! Kid Classics: Moby Dick is full of adventure and excitement!Herman Melville was a sailor before he was a famous author, and he pulled from his seafaring experience when he wrote Moby Dick; Or, the Whale in 1851. Now, here is the fun new just-for-kids version of Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick, abridged and retold while remaining true to Melville's original text. It's a story that you can't put down: The sailor Ishmael tells the tale of whaling ship Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to get revenge on Moby Dick, the legendary giant white sperm whale who bit off his leg! With page after page of captivating illustrations, this magical hardcover will be the fought over favorite in your home and schoolroom!

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no money inmy purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and seethe watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating thecirculation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzlyNovember in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, andbringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upperhand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping intothe street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea assoon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throwshimself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they butknew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelingstowards the ocean with me.There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coralreefs-commerce surrounds it with her surf. Right and left, the streets take you waterward. Itsextreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land. Look at the crowds of water-gazers there.Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to CoentiesSlip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?-Posted like silent sentinels allaround the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Someleaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of shipsfrom China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But theseare all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?But look! here come more crowds, pacing straight for the water, and seemingly bound for a dive.Strange! Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady leeof yonder warehouses will not suffice. No. They must get just as nigh the water as they possibly canwithout falling in. And there they stand-miles of them-leagues. Inlanders all, they come fromlanes and alleys, streets and avenues-north, east, south, and west. Yet here they all unite. Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path youplease, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream.There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries-standthat man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be inall that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if yourcaravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditationand water are wedded for ev

El amplio mar, la constante contemplación del horizonte en busca de la presa, la abigarrada tripulación del " Pequod " , ballenero comandado por un capitán tullido y obsesionado por su venganza... Surgiendo de la profundidad de las aguas, como un espectro, la encarnacion del Mal: Moby Dick, la ballena blanca...

"Preferiría no hacerlo" es una frase que insistentemente repite "Bartleby el escribiente", uno de los personajes más insólitos y obstinados en la historia de la literatura, protagonista del relato de Herman Melville, que tanta influencia ejerciera en escritores posteriores. Un cuento que muchos han creido precursor del existencialismo y antecedente de algunos de los temas de Franz Kafka. Wall Street, 1850. Un abogado trabaja con sus dos copistas, Turkey y Nippers, y el chico de los recados, Ginger Nut, de manera tranquila y rutinaria, cuando el incremento de trabajo le obliga a buscar ayuda adicional. En respuesta a su demanda, aparece una mañana un joven de figura palidamente pulcra, lamentablemente decorosa e incurablemente desamparada... Es BARTLEBY.Esta cuidadisima edicion se acompaña de unas excelentes ilustraciones de Stephane Poulin, artista y escritor canadiense ganador de numerosos premios."Preferiría no hacerlo" es una frase que insistentemente repite "Bartleby el escribiente", uno de los personajes más insólitos y obstinados en la historia de la literatura, protagonista del relato de Herman Melville, que tanta influencia ejerciera en escritores posteriores. Un cuento que muchos han creido precursor del existencialismo y antecedente de algunos de los temas de Franz Kafka. Wall Street, 1850. Un abogado trabaja con sus dos copistas, Turkey y Nippers, y el chico de los recados, Ginger Nut, de manera tranquila y rutinaria, cuando el incremento de trabajo le obliga a buscar ayuda adicional. En respuesta a su demanda, aparece una mañana un joven de figura palidamente pulcra, lamentablemente decorosa e incurablemente desamparada... Es BARTLEBY.Esta cuidadisima edicion se acompaña de unas excelentes ilustraciones de Stephane Poulin, artista y escritor canadiense ganador de numerosos premios.

Bartleby es más que un artificio o un ocio de la imaginación onírica; es, fundamentalmente, un libro triste y verdadero que nos muestra esa inutilidad esencial, que e

Durante o ano 1797, o ano dos motíns, un rapazolo de vinteún anos, Billy Budd, encarnación da bondade natural, é trasladado do barco mercante Dereitos do Home ó buque de guerra británico 'Bellipotent' onde é víctima da envexa de Claggart, o Mestre de Armas.A narración dos feítos sucede rápidamente para acadar un tráxico final no que os personaxes Billy, Claggart e o Capitán Vere vanse trocar en símbolos de conducta da complexa condición humana.