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1) Moby Dick
El vendedor de pararrayos es un cuento poco conocido de Herman Melville, autor reconocido por su biblico Moby Dick. El cuento se ambienta en medio de una tormenta cuando llama a la puerta de una casa un vendedor de pararrayos. En el breve relato bajo la lluvia y los relámpagos se inicia una lucha simbólica entre el bien y el mal, la religión y la ciencia entre dos personajes anclados a sus creencias.
La obra fue publicada en una recopilación
3) Typee
5) Redburn
6) Typee
Typee (A Peep at Polynesian Life) è il primo libro dello scrittore statunitense Herman Melville, apparso nel 1846. Si tratta di un lavoro in parte autobiografico.
Il narratore, Tom, diserta dalla baleniera Dolly - in cui si trovava imbarcato da sei mesi - assieme all'amico Toby, durante una fermata intermedia nella baia di Nuku Hiva nell'arcipelago delle Isole Marchesi nell'Oceano Pacifico; i due cercano rifugio nell'entroterra tra gli
...7) Bartleby
Melville’s pen ranges far and wide in this collection of his short stories and novellas, with subjects including a faraway mountain lodge, a magnificent rooster, a haunted table, and of course the inimitable scrivener Bartleby, whose tale is now viewed as one of the great English short stories. While his earlier novels had been well received, by this point in his career his star
...16) Moby Dick
17) Moby Dick
Mardi; and, A Voyage Thither / Herman Melville
"Mardi, and a Voyage Thither is the third book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1849. Beginning as a travelogue in the vein of the author's two previous efforts, the adventure story gives way to a romance story, which in its turn gives way to a philosophical quest." (Wikipedia)
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