Herman Melville
1) Moby Dick
3) Moby Dick
4) Moby Dick
12) Billy Budd
A young sailor in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy is falsely accused of mutiny in this classic tale of good and evil by the celebrated author of Moby Dick.
England, 1797. Billy Budd, a young sailor aboard the merchant ship Rights-of-Man is conscripted to serve on a Royal Navy warship, the HMS Bellipotent. Innocent and charming despite his stutter, Billy is quickly accepted by the crew—and resented by the
...15) Omoo
Being a Seaman in the 19th-Century
"Dashing forever against their coral rampart, the breakers looked in the distance, like a line of rearing white chargers reined in, tossing their white manes, and bridling with foam." - Herman Melville, Omoo
Omoo is basically a fiction-driven adventure novel based on Herman Melville's South Pacific seamanship experience. The novel is a sequel to Typee; this time, the action is set on the remote
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