Краткая, но поучительная история о том, как большая неудача может привести к маленькому...
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Классическая история о противоборстве безумного капитана Ахава и легендарного белого кита по прозвищу «Моби...
Перевели с английского и пересказали для детей Д. Дар и В. Паперно.
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Молодой Билли Бадд, «Красавец Матрос» поступает на службу на военный корабль, где царит жёсткая дисциплина. Он усерден, исполнителен,...
When Billy, a handsome, unpretentious, stuttering young able-seaman, is falsely accused of inciting mutiny, he lashes out, kills his accuser and is condemned to die. Written in allusive and beautiful prose, many-layered, resonant with ideas and...
An ambitious and far reaching allegorical voyage which, though not exactly a success, was Melville's first attempt at a book on the scale of Moby-Dick. Here is a passage which is reflective of the style, and outlook, of Mardi:
So, if after...
Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a...
Long considered the author's strangest novel, this work is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-18th-century America. A mysterious shape-changing confidence-man approaches passengers on a Mississippi steamboat and,...
First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, The Piazza Tales comprises six of Herman Melville's finest short stories. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: 'Benito Cereno,' an...
При жизни Г. Мелвилла (1819–1891) его стихи издавались очень малыми тиражами либо вовсе не издавались. Поэтическое наследие писателя...