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Macmillan Readers Moby Dick Upper Intermediate Reader

Stung by the difficult reception of Moby Dick, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a classic confrontatio n between good and evil, and the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other stories also illuminate the way fictions are created and shared by society.

Slavná novela autora Bílé velryby, která, ač vydaná v roce 1853, v mnohém předjímá postupy literární avantgardy či díla Kafkova. Vypravěčem Melvillova příběhu je majitel menší právnické kanceláře na Wall Streetu, přestože během své praxe už poznal pěknou řádku písařů, je zoufalým osudem svého nového písaře fascinován. Anti-hrdina Bartleby je sužován mnoha strachy, ale tím největším je strach z komunikace, z nemožnosti porozumění, z rizika bolestného fiaska. Všechno co následuje ode dne, kdy se Bartleby objeví ve dveřích kanceláře, je tak mnohotvárné a podivné, že příběh dočítáme se zatajeným dechem. Bilingvní text pro středně pokročilé. S komentářem.

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships´ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in litera

Dobrodružný příběh dvou mladých námořníků, kteří nechtějí snášet kruté podmínky a surové zacházení, a proto uprchnou z velrybářské lodi. Na tropickém ostrově Nuku Hiva v souostroví Markézy je zajme kmen lidojedů. V prostředí naprosto odlišné kultury a zvyků musí oba muži bojovat o holý život.

On board the whaling ship Pequod, a crew of wise men and fools, renegades, and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captain hell-bent on hunting down Moby Dick, the mythic White Whale who left him crippled. As the ""great flood-gates of the wonder-world"" swing open, Melville transforms the little world of the whale-ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary, compressed intensity sustained by a buoyant, mischievous irony and by moments of exquisite beauty, Melville's masterpiece is both a great American epic and one of the most profoundly imaginative creations in literary history. The world's greatest works of literature are now available in these beautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring gilt edges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are a wonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature. These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'll transport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement, entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of these novels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalled period feel that will grace the library, the bedside table or bureau.

Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fidele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history.

First published in Britain as The Whale", and slightly later in New York, this novel is made up of 135 chapters, written in a variety of styles, from sailors's slang to biblical prophecy and Shakespearean rant."

Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab and his men find the great white whale? A young sailor, Ishmael, tells the story of their exciting and dangerous trip.

`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In thi s short history of the impressment and hanging of a handsome sailor-boy are to be discovered problems as profound as those which puzzle us in the pages of the Gospels.' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself. The selection in this volume represents the best of Melville's shorter fiction, and uses the most authoritative texts. The eight shorter tales included here were composed during Melville's years as a magazine writer in the mid 1850's and establish him, along with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of his age. Several of the tales - Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - are acknowledged masterpieces of their genres. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in nearly endless circles of meaning.

Dobrodružný příběh dvou mladých námořníků, kteří nechtějí snášet kruté podmínky a surové zacházení, a proto uprchnou z velrybářské lodi. Na tropickém ostrově Nuku Hiva v souostroví Markézy je zajme kmen lidojedů. V prostředí naprosto odlišné kultury a zvyků musí oba muži bojovat o holý život.

Billy Budd is young and innocent. Others on his ship are not. Can they destroy him? Will they destroy him? And what does it say about our world if they succeed? This is a classic story by a great American writer, Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick.

Nezvyčajná dráma, ktorá sa musí skončiť pre účastníkov tragicky. Krvilačná beštia, čo sa pohráva so všetkými loďami plávajúcimi okolo, aby smrteľne vystrašených námorníkov napokon zhltla vo svojej obrovskej papuli. Veria tomu všetci námorníci veľrybárskych lodí v blízkom okolí, rozprávajúc si hrôzostrašné detaily zo stretnutia s ňou. Nazývajú ju Moby Dick a veria, že je stelesneným diablom. Kapitán lode Peguod, námorníkmi prezývaný Hromovládca, sa s ňou stretol tiež a vyzval ju na boj na život a na smrť. Námorníci mu musia obetovať pred plavbou na jeho lodi svoje duše. Prenasledovanie sa začína.