Gesammelte Werke Herman Melvilles

by Herman Melville

Overview

Die Werke Herman Melvilles sorgsam zusammengetragen in E-Book-Ausgabe. Diese Sammlung der Werke eines der bedeutensten amerikanischen Schriftsteller, Dichter und Essayisten, des Autors von Moby Dick enthält: Der Pudding des armen Mannes und die Brosamen des Reichen Die Brosamen der Reichen Billy Budd Vortoppmann auf der Indomitable 'United States' im Jahre 1843. Billy in Ketten Die Encantadas oder Die Verzauberten Inseln Die Inseln. Aufs Große Gesehen Zwei Seiten einer Schildkröte Der Rodondo-Felsen Ein Rundblick vom Felsen Die Fregatte und das Schiff Fangmichnicht Die Insel Barrington und die Freibeuter Die Charles-Insel und der Hundekönig Die Insel Norfolk und die Chola-Witwe Die Insel Hood und der Einsiedel Oberlus Ausreißer, Ausgestoßene, Einzelgänger, Grabsteine Jimmy Rose Das Paradies der Junggesellen Der Tartarus der Mädchen Bartleby Benito Cereno Kikeriki Das Krähen des edlen Hahnes Beneventano

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783733904777
Publisher:	aristoteles
Publication date:	04/08/2014
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	849
File size:	4 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Herman Melville was born in August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of a merchant. Only twelve when his father died bankrupt, young Herman tried work as a bank clerk, as a cabin-boy on a trip to Liverpool, and as an elementary schoolteacher, before shipping in January 1841 on the whaler Acushnet, bound for the Pacific. Deserting ship the following year in the Marquesas, he made his way to Tahiti and Honolulu, returning as ordinary seaman on the frigate United States to Boston, where he was discharged in October 1844. Books based on these adventures won him immediate success. By 1850 he was married, had acquired a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussetts (where he was the impetuous friend and neighbor of Nathaniel Hawthorne), and was hard at work on his masterpiece Moby-Dick.

Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.

Date of Birth:

August 1, 1819

Date of Death:

September 28, 1891

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

Attended the Albany Academy in Albany, New York, until age 15