A whaling ship stops at a remote Polynesian island. The crew aboard is exhausted after a grueling six-month voyage in which they suffered ill-treatment and drudgery. Two men...

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Typee is Herman Melvilles first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It...

Call me Ishmael is one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. With these words, opens one of the strangest and most gripping stories ever written about the sea...

Herman Heijermans publiceerde onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkland columns vanaf 1894 in De Telegraaf en later vanaf 1896 in het Algemeen Handelsblad. Hij maakte er meer dan 600...

On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (18191891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and...

Het boek Gevleugelde Daden van Herman Heijermans Jr. werd uitgegeven in 1911 (sommige bronnen zeggen 1908) onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkland. Het boek heeft als ondertitel:...

Mardi is Melvilles first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates mans beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham?...

A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening during a performance. Helen Hardwick happened to be in attendance that...