Herman Melville
81) Beau travail
Series
Criterion collection volume 1042
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (folded : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
Language
Français
Description
Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.
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English
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Featuring an appendix of discussion questions, the Diversion Classics edition is ideal for use in book groups and classrooms. In this collection of classics, five seminal tales come together to form a picture of America in its youth, but on the cusp of growing up. These stories defined and challenged the standards of American literature, and their influence is immeasurable. Including Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER, Herman Melville's MOBY...
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Language
English
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Content:
Letters:
Browne's Folly (a letter for the Essex Institute)
Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody) - Volume I&II
Letter to the Editor of the Literary Review
Memoirs:
American Notebooks (Volume I & II)
English Notebooks (Volume I & II)
French and Italian Notebooks (Volume I & II)
Biographies and Reminiscences of Hawthorne:
The Life and Genius of Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne
Memories of Hawthorne...
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Language
English
Description
When Ishmael joined the crew of a whaling ship called the Pequod, he was eager for a life of adventure on the high seas. But he didn't know that what he was about to embark on would be the adventure of a lifetime. With Captain Ahab at the helm, Ishmael and his crewmates quickly learned that they weren't simply hunting whales. They were on a quest for the biggest catch there ever was: the great white whale of legend, Moby Dick.
86) Moby Dick
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Language
English
Description
When Ishmael joined the crew of a whaling ship called the Pequod, he was eager for a life of adventure on the high seas. But he didn't know that what he was about to embark on would be the adventure of a lifetime. With Captain Ahab at the helm, Ishmael and his crewmates quickly learned that they weren't simply hunting whales. They were on a quest for the biggest catch there ever was: the great white whale of legend, Moby Dick.
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Language
English
Description
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Content:
Randall Parrish:
Wolves of the Sea
Charles Boardman Hawes:
The Dark Frigate
The Mutineers
Rafael Sabatini:
Captain Blood
The Sea-Hawk
Captain Charles Johnson:
The History of Pirates
R. L. Stevenson:
Treasure Island
Jack London:
The Sea Wolf
The Mutiny of the Elsinore
A Son of the Sun
Daniel Defoe:
Robinson Crusoe
Captain Singleton
Tobias...
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Language
English
Description
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest books ever written, perfect for the holiday season:
American:
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
Moby-Dick
The Scarlet Letter
Little Women
My Antonia
The Age of Innocence
The Awakening
The Portrait of a Lady
The Wings of the Dove
The Yellow Wallpaper
Walden
Leaves of Grass
The Madman
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Life of Frederick Douglass
Ben-Hur
The Last of the...
89) Billy Budd
Publisher
BelAir Classiques
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet included
Language
English
Description
Story of Captain Vere and his reflections upon past memories and experiences with Billy Budd aboard the HMS Indomitable during the French Revolutionary War in the late 18th century.
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Language
English
Description
Most people associate storms and other big weather with death-with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that...
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Series
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
For those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.
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English
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Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic...
