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Billy Budd
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Billy Budd

Автор: Melville Herman
Язык: английский

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...
Redburn. His First Voyage
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Redburn. His First Voyage

Автор: Melville Herman
Язык: английский
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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...
The Confidence-Man
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The Confidence-Man

Автор: Melville Herman
Язык: английский
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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,...
The Piazza Tales
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The Piazza Tales

Автор: Melville Herman
Язык: английский
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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...