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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Herman Wouk
The Proposed Amendments To The Constitution Of The United States During The First Century Of Its History
Herman Vandenburg Ames
Kessinger Pub
2007
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Ornamental Confectionery And The Art Of Baking In All Its Branches
Herman Hueg
Kessinger Pub
2007
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The Historical Development Of The Forms Of The Future Tense In Middle High German
Herman Kurrelmeyer
Kessinger Pub
2008
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Ornamental Confectionery and the Art of Baking in All Its Branches
Herman Hueg
Kessinger Pub
2008
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If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower."
No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. It is the greatest sea story ever told. Far ahead of its own time, Moby Dick was largely misunderstood and unappreciated by Melville's contemporaries. Today, however, it is indisputably a classic. As D.H. Lawrence wrote, Moby Dick "commands a stillness in the soul, an awe . . . [It is] one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world."
Four Great American Classics
Herman Melville; Mark Twain; Stephen Crane
Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, Inc
1992
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