Herman Melville
Author
Series
Library of America volume 24
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
1478 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vol. 24.
4) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
1437 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
47 Points*(Moby Dick.).
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
1333 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"These three early novels are stirring romances of the South Seas; many of these fictional details resemble some of the events in Melville's own life in the early 1840s"--Jacket.
6) Typee
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story is closely based on the authors four-month sojourn with a group of South Sea Islanders, the Typees, after he and a companion deserted their whaling ship. -- Publisher's description.
8) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early American writer Herman Melville is best known for his great American novel "Moby Dick." However, Melville was also a prolific and honest short story writer. His stories play with irony, twisting the fates of his protagonists and making sure that the reader is left with a deep sense of wonder and enlightenment. Many of his works are set from an "outsider's" perspective of immigrants in early America, which is interesting considering that Melville...
11) Benito Cereno
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized account about the revolt on a 19th-century Spanish slavery ship, Benito Cereno was first published in three installments in 1855. Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts, Jr. called the story "an oblique comment on those prevailing attitudes toward blacks and slavery in the United States that would ultimately precipitate civil war between North and South." The famous question of what had cast such a shadow upon Cereno was used by American...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Typee is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, published in the early part of 1846, when Melville was 26 years old. Considered a classic in travel and adventure literature, the narrative is based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands in 1842, supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and research from other books. The title comes from the valley of Taipivai, once known as...
13) Omoo
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Melville's travels in the Society Islands of the South Pacific, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas is told by an unnamed narrator who boards a whaling vessel bound for Tahiti. The narrator becomes involved in a mutiny and afterward is imprisoned on the island of Tahiti. His observations of the island, its way of life and the customs of the natives follow. Omoo" is the sequel to Melville's hugely successful Typee: A Peep at...
Publisher
Artists & Entertainment Development
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The most authentic version of Herman Melville's classic best seller ever produced. A dramatazation of the classic in which one actor plays thirteen roles. Considered by Time magazine as one of the 5 great one-man shows.
20) The sea beast
Publisher
Televista
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : si., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Captain Ahab Ceeley and his stepbrother Derek compete for the affections of a minister's daughter, until an act of betrayal during the pursuit of the white whale costs Ahab his leg and the woman's love, and fuels his undying hatred for the whale.
