Herman Melville
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.
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4) Redburn
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
...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
Best known for producing one of the masterworks of American literature, the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also branched out into many other genres of writing over the course of his career. The novella Israel Potter: His Fifty Years in Exile was initially published in serial form in a magazine. It offers a fictionalized account of an American-born man whose remarkable life included time spent as a soldier, sailor, prisoner, spy,
...Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee, both fictional yet highly autobiographical. The narrator ships on a whaling vessel to Tahiti, where the crew mutinies and are imprisoned. The narrative is full of his observations of the Tahitian customs and way of life. Omoo is based on Melville's experiences in the Society Islands.
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Moby Dick es la escalofriante historia de la lucha entre el capitán Ahab, capitán del ballenero Pequod y Moby Dick, la gran ballena blanca que arrancó su pierna. Ahab con una sed de venganza arrastra su tripulación en una obsesionada búsqueda de su gran enemigo.
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