{"title":"Herman Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerman Melville — \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/em\u003e, and more seafaring classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bartleby-and-benito-cereno","title":"Bartleby and Benito Cereno","description":"Herman Melville towers among American writers not only for his powerful novels, but also for the stirring novellas and short stories that flowed from his pen. Two of the most admired of these — \"Bartleby\" and \"Benito Cereno\" — first appeared as magazine pieces and were then published in 1856 as part of a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales. \"Bartleby\" (also known as \"Bartleby the Scrivener\") is an intriguing moral allegory set in the business world of mid-19th-century New York. A strange, enigmatic man employed as a clerk in a legal office, Bartleby forces his employer to come to grips with the most basic questions of human responsibility, and haunts the latter's conscience, even after Bartleby's dismissal. \"Benito Cereno,\" considered one of Melville's best short stories, deals with a bloody slave revolt on a Spanish vessel. A splendid parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, the carefully developed and mysteriously guarded plot builds to a dramatic climax while revealing the horror and depravity of which man is capable. Reprinted here from standard texts in a finely made, yet inexpensive new edition, these stories offer the general reader and students of Melville and American literature sterling examples of a literary giant at his story-telling best.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44456881487969,"sku":"9780486110554","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_1199aff4-3370-4ff1-8947-7d251b94e2a5.jpg?v=1778566075"},{"product_id":"moby-dick-1","title":"Moby-Dick","description":"A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel, and a wealth of information on whales and 19th-century whaling, Melville's greatest work presents an imaginative and thrilling picture of life at sea, as well as a portrait of heroic determination. The author's keen powers of observation and firsthand knowledge of shipboard life (he served aboard a whaler himself) were key ingredients in crafting a maritime story that dramatically examines the conflict between man and nature. \"A valuable addition to the literature of the day,\" said American journalist Horace Greeley on the publication of Moby-Dick in 1851 — a classic piece of understatement about a literary classic now considered by many as \"the great American novel.\" Read and pondered by generations, the novel remains an unsurpassed account of the ultimate human struggle against the indifference of nature and the awful power of fate. Much of Moby Dick was inspired by the 1821 work Narratives of the Wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, which in turn inspired the 2015 movie In the Heart of the Sea, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44457949069409,"sku":"9780486114347","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_b7186381-f632-4e4d-99a3-7f4d82a399b2.jpg?v=1778567310"},{"product_id":"the-encantadas-and-other-stories","title":"The Encantadas and Other Stories","description":"Best known as the creator of Captain Ahab and the great white whale of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (1819–91) found critical and popular success with his first novels, which he based on his adventures in the South Seas. His reputation was diminished by his preoccupation with metaphysical themes and allegorical techniques in later works; and by the time of his death, his books were long forgotten. Generations later, Melville's readers recognized his work as keenly satirical and rich in elements that prefigured the emergence of existentialism and Freudian psychology. Melville's critical fortunes temporarily rebounded in the early to mid-1850s, with the favorable reception of his contributions to Harper's and Putnam's—two of the era's leading monthly magazines. This collection features fourteen of his works of short fiction from that period—most prominently, \"The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles.\" This series of descriptive sketches, a reminiscence from Melville's sailor days, reveals the ecologically pristine Galápagos Islands as both enchanting and horrifying. The other stories showcase the author's mastery of a diverse range of writing styles. \"The Lightning-Rod Man\" demonstrates his deftness at Dickensian comedy, and \"The Piazza\" anticipates his subsequent absorption with poetry. \"The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,\" with its incisive contrast of upper-class frivolity with the desperate lives of factory workers, offers a moving portrait of social inequality. These rediscovered tales by a writer who was ahead of his time provide a captivating blend of artistry and cultural commentary.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44458430038113,"sku":"9780486115405","price":1.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_13288a85-d3a0-423e-8c09-037c7f2fa54e.jpg?v=1778567905"},{"product_id":"israel-potter-his-fifty-years-of-exile-and-life-and-remarkable-adventures-of-israel-r-potter","title":"Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter","description":"In this spirited saga, a promising young soldier is wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill, sets sail with John Paul Jones, and undertakes espionage at the behest of Benjamin Franklin. Herman Melville drew upon the obscure memoirs of a Revolutionary War veteran to create his only historical novel, combining Israel Potter's real-life reminiscences with fictional incidents that lead his hero into encounters with noteworthy figures of colonial America. Recounted with humor and zest, this adventure abounds in sea battles, prison escapes, and other episodes of derring-do. The Village Voice acclaimed Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile as \"Melville's most vigorous work: hilarious, tender, expressive, a fierce and rollicking chronicle . . . of brilliantly sustained comedy.\" This edition also includes Melville's source material, Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. 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Along with excerpts from Moby-Dick, this anthology presents the complete text of Melville's classic of travel and adventure literature, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. Additional features include the short stories \"Bartleby the Scrivener,\" \"The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,\" and \"The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles.\"","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44459832803425,"sku":"9780486811895","price":2.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_65f6deaf-6a7d-4ee8-931e-c2107fc15b3c.jpg?v=1778569672"},{"product_id":"the-confidence-man","title":"The Confidence-Man","description":"On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities — a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman — to win over his not-entirely-innocent dupes. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human identity even as his impudent hoaxes form a meditation on illusion and trust. This comic allegory addresses themes of sincerity, character, and morality in its challenge to the optimism and materialism of mid-19th-century America. By the time of its publication, readers had pigeonholed Herman Melville as a writer of adventure yarns. The novel was completely misunderstood by the author's contemporaries, and its financial failure drove him away from fiction. With the passage of time, however, The Confidence-Man has come to be recognized for its stunningly modern techniques and its indictment of the dark side of the American dream.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44460048482401,"sku":"9780486825946","price":2.25,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_0c8393db-44a5-49dc-8510-09899d5cf665.jpg?v=1778569965"},{"product_id":"typee","title":"Typee","description":"In this classic of travel and adventure literature, Herman Melville drew upon his adventures in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands as a prisoner of the Typee people. Like the novel's narrator, Melville jumped ship from a whaling vessel and was held in benign captivity by an indigenous tribe with a reputation for ferocity and cannibalism. His startling and romantic glimpses of native peoples and their customs thrilled Victorian readers, making this the most popular of Melville's books in its day. The study of a culture that both impressed and alarmed the author, this 1846 narrative is also the exciting story of a stranded sailor's attempts to escape from an idyllic but ultimately stultifying existence. Melville's book enjoyed a reputation as a reliable source of firsthand anthropological lore for decades before his use of poetic license came to light. Nevertheless, modern readers appreciate the tale as an intriguing mix of experience and imagination, a combination that enlivened and informed Melville's other works.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"perpetual","offer_id":44460371673185,"sku":"9780486843988","price":3.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/9869\/4241\/files\/480_e6f640e0-2321-45ff-8b8c-c04e2d633c54.jpg?v=1778570344"}],"url":"https:\/\/ebooks.aafaqeducation.com\/collections\/herman-melville.oembed","provider":"ebook.aafaqeducation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}