Audiobooks by Herman Melville

[Spanish] - Bartleby, El Escribiente Audiobook

'Bartleby, el escribiente' es una breve obra maestra del escritor estadounidense Herman Melville. La historia sigue a un narrador sin nombre, un abogado de Wall Street, que contrata a un nuevo escribiente llamado Bartleby. En un principio, Bartleby parece ser un empleado tranquilo y diligente, pero pronto empieza a mostrar un comportamiento extraño y desafiante. La obra es una meditación sobre la alienación, la rebeldía y la resistencia individual frente a las demandas de la sociedad y la autoridad. Bartleby es un personaje enigmático que, ante cada solicitud que se le hace en su trabajo, responde con la frase 'Preferiría no hacerlo'. Esta respuesta pasiva, pero obstinada, desafía las normas y expectativas del mundo laboral y social en el que se desarrolla la historia. El abogado y sus otros empleados intentan comprender y manejar la situación de Bartleby, pero sus esfuerzos son en vano. Bartleby se niega a abandonar el edificio donde trabaja, incluso después de ser despedido, y su presencia se convierte en una carga emocional y moral para el narrador. A medida que avanza la narrativa, la resistencia silenciosa de Bartleby y su rechazo a participar en las convenciones sociales y laborales convierten su historia en una metáfora de la alienación y la desilusión en la sociedad moderna. Su personaje se ha interpretado de diversas maneras, desde un símbolo de la pasividad ante la opresión hasta una representación de la lucha existencial del individuo contra las fuerzas que lo rodean. En resumen, 'Bartleby, el escribiente' es una obra magistral que examina temas universales como la alienación, la rebeldía y la resistencia individual. Su impacto perdura hasta hoy como una poderosa reflexión sobre la condición humana y la lucha por la autenticidad en un mundo que a menudo nos exige conformidad y sumisión.

Herman Melville (Author), Remigia De La Rosa (Narrator)

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Moby-Dick or, the Whale (Unabridged)

Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville - is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it 'one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world' and 'the greatest book of the sea ever written'. Its opening sentence, 'Call me Ishmael', is among world literature's most famous. Plot Ishmael travels in December from Manhattan Island to New Bedford, Massachusetts, with plans to sign up for a whaling voyage. The inn where he arrives is overcrowded, so he must share a bed with the tattooed cannibal Polynesian Queequeg, a harpooneer whose father was king of the fictional island of Rokovoko. The next morning, Ishmael and Queequeg attend Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah, then head for Nantucket. Ishmael signs up with the Quaker ship-owners Bildad and Peleg for a voyage on their whaler Pequod. Peleg describes Captain Ahab: 'He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man' who nevertheless 'has his humanities'. They hire Queequeg the following morning. A man named Elijah prophesies a dire fate should Ishmael and Queequeg join Ahab. While provisions are loaded, shadowy figures board the ship. On a cold Christmas Day, the Pequod leaves the harbor. Ishmael discusses cetology (the zoological classification and natural history of the whale), and describes the crew members. The chief mate is 30-year-old Starbuck, a Nantucket Quaker with a realist mentality, whose harpooneer is Queequeg; second mate is Stubb, from Cape Cod, happy-go-lucky and cheerful, whose harpooneer is Tashtego, a proud, pure-blooded Indian from Gay Head; and the third mate is Flask, also from Martha's Vineyard, short, stout, whose harpooneer is Daggoo, a tall African, now a resident of Nantucket. When Ahab finally appears on the quarterdeck, he announces he is out for revenge on the white whale which took one leg from the knee down and left him with a prosthesis fashioned from a whale's jawbone. Ahab will give the first man to sight Moby Dick a doubloon, a gold coin, which he nails to the mast. Starbuck objects that he has not come for vengeance but for profit. Ahab's purpose exercises a mysterious spell on Ishmael: 'Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine'. Instead of rounding Cape Horn, Ahab heads for the equatorial Pacific Ocean via southern Africa.

Herman Melville (Author), Stewart Wills (Narrator)

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[German] - Die großen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur

Die großen Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur Mit Erzählungen von Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne und F. Scott Fitzgerald. gelesen von Dána M. Deverny, Werner Wilkening, Ingolf Kloss, u.a. -Herman Melville: Bartleby -Edgar Allan Poe: Das Manuskript in der Flasche -Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccinis Tochter -Mark Twain: Die Eine-Million-Pfund-Note -Edgar Allan Poe: Hopp-Frosch -F. Scott Fitzgerald: Der Gast in Zimmer Neunzehn In der Weltliteratur haben amerikanische Autoren und ihre Werke schon immer einen besonderen Rang eingenommen. Berühmte Namen wie Melville, Fitzgerald, Twain, Poe - sie alle beeinflussten die Literaturgeschichte und wurden so zu den großen Legenden in der fantastischen Welt der Bücher. Wenn ihr aber wissen wollt, welche Klassiker der amerikanischen Weltliteratur wirklich anhörenswert sind, seid ihr hier genau richtig! Coverabbildung: Unter Verwendung einer Vectografie von Patriotic Wallpapers. Coverschrift gesetzt aus der Impact. Schlussmusik: produced by Jason Shaw on Audionautix is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author), Div., Dána M. Deverny, Ingolf Kloss, Werner Wilkening (Narrator)

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Bartleby, The Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. Among Melville's best-known works are Moby-Dick; Typee , a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels. During his last years, he privately published two volumes of poetry, and left one volume unpublished. The novella Billy Budd was left unfinished at his death, but was published posthumously in 1924. Melville died from cardiovascular disease in 1891.

Herman Melville (Author), Geoffrey Giuliano And The Ark (Narrator)

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Moby Dick

Moby Dick es una interesante y clásica novela publicada en 1851 del escritor Herman Melville . Narra la travesía del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capitán Ahab, junto a Ismael y el arponero Queequog en la obsesiva y auto destructiva persecución de un gran cachalote blanco, Moby Dick...

Herman Melville (Author), Armando Hernandez (Narrator)

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An Audio Bundle: Storm & Deep Blue

Most people associate storms and other big weather with death-with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they're likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. They tell us about what happens when people find that treacherous weather-or when it finds them-and we are reminded of the fragility of life, the capriciousness of Nature's will, and how little we can do when both cross paths. In Deep Blue, for those who dare, things often go wrong under the sea. Such tragedies, spurred by the booming interest in the Titanic and the Andrea Doria, have been the focus of tremendous literature form the world's finest authors. Deep Blue offers compelling tales of shipwrecks and salvage, submarine adventure and free diving, nautical survival and cannibalism.

Farley Mowat, Gordon Chaplin, Herman Melville, Jack Lemoyne, Jack London, John Muir, John Vaillant, Michael Groom, Nathaniel Philbrick, Patrick O'brian, Philip Ashton, Richard Byrd, Rick Bass, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rockwell Kent, Sebastian Junger, Stephen Crane, Whitney Balliett (Author), Barrett Whitener, Gary Telles, Nick Sampson, Richard Rohan, Rick Foucheux, Terence Aselford (Narrator)

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Bartleby, the Scrivener

'Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street' is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856. In the story, a Wall Street lawyer hires a new clerk who, after an initial bout of hard work, refuses to make copies or do any other task required of him, with the words, 'I would prefer not to'. The narrator is an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business in legal documents. He already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey, to copy legal documents by hand, but an increase in business leads him to advertise for a third. He hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two... Among the most significant works Herman Melville - 'Bartleby: La formula della creazione' (1993) of Giorgio Agamben and 'Bartleby, ou la formule by Gilles Deleuze' are two important philosophical essays reconsidering many of Melville's ideas, 'A Peep at Polynesian Life', '? Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas', 'Mardi: And a Voyage Thither', 'Redburn: His First Voyage', 'White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War', 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale', 'Pierre: or, The Ambiguities', 'Isle of the Cross', 'Bartleby, the Scrivener', The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles', 'Benito Cereno', 'Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile'.

Herman Melville (Author), Michael Goodrick (Narrator)

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Moby Dick

Melville's epic tale of one man versus a great white whale will delight Melville devotees as well as those who have yet to sail on this adventure in this mesmerizing new recording read by Jonathan Epstein. The mountain whose whale-like shape first gave Melville the idea of writing Moby Dick rests in the Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, a short drive away from The Alison Larkin Presents recording studio. "I'd been wanting to produce Moby Dick ever since I moved to Western Massachusetts" says producer Alison Larkin, "but I wanted to wait to find the perfect actor first. Then I found Jonathan Epstein, who drove up from Florida during the pandemic to record this." At the end of the recording, Larkin interviews Jonathan Epstein and recording engineer Galen Wade about the experience recording the great novel during the pandemic. Jonathan Epstein is an acclaimed actor who has performed on and Off-Broadway, in London's West End, and with the world-renowned Shakespeare & Company. Epstein is the two-time recipient of Boston's coveted Elliot Norton acting Award.

Herman Melville (Author), Jonathan Epstein (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads Bartleby, the Scrivener

The narrator of this story is a successful lawyer on Wall Street. He hires a scrivener named Bartleby to help him with all the papers and relieve the load of work. Bartleby quickly gains the lawyer’s trust by completing his tasks on time. However, the newcomer becomes mentally unstable. He suddenly refuses to perform his duties and stares at a blank wall instead. The lawyer decides to give Bartleby a break, then tries to fire him, but the uncontrollable employee refuses to leave. Who exactly is Bartleby? Why does he refuse to perform the tasks he has been hired to do? What is his problem? How is the lawyer going to deal with the scrivener? Will Bartleby ever leave? Find all the answers in Herman Melville’s novel 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' from 1853. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American author whose books were based on his own experiences as a sailor. Today Herman Melville is world famous for his novel 'Moby Dick' but in his lifetime, this novel was ill received and quickly forgotten. Not until many years after Herman Melville's death did 'Moby Dick' get rediscovered become what is today considered one of the greatest classics in American literature. Melville, along with authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, was part of the American Renaissance – a literary movement that aimed to provide literature for the American democracy.

Herman Melville (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads Moby Dick

Ahab is the captain of a whaling ship named the Pequod. His great obsession with the giant whale, Moby Dick, makes him embark on a dangerous voyage. Some years before, the captain lost his leg because of the whale and now Ahab’s main desire is to take his revenge on the whale by killing it. He is so obsessed, that Ahab is ready to sacrifice everything he has, including the Pequod and all the members of his crew, and even his own life. How exactly did the captain lose his leg? Is it worth it to risk everything just to have his revenge? Will Ahab survive the expedition and will he get his revenge on Moby Dick? Find all the answers in Herman Melville’s exciting novel 'Moby Dick' from 1851. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. Herman Melville (1819-1891) was an American author whose books were based on his own experiences as a sailor. Today Herman Melville is world famous for his novel 'Moby Dick' but in his lifetime, this novel was ill received and quickly forgotten. Not until many years after Herman Melville's death did 'Moby Dick' get rediscovered become what is today considered one of the greatest classics in American literature. Melville, along with authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, was part of the American Renaissance – a literary movement that aimed to provide literature for the American democracy.

Herman Melville (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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Melvilles Reisen

Ein auf den 'Reisetagebüchern' des großen Schriftstellers und Seefahrers basierendes Hörbuch, das ebenso viel über das Leben des 'Moby-Dick'-Autors wie über seine Werke aussagt: Herman Melville hat drei große Reisen in seinem Leben unternommen, die ihn nach Europa, in das Heilige Land und in den vorderen Orient geführt haben und auf denen er so manch spannendes Abenteuer erlebt und die Welt kennengelernt hat.-

Herman Melville (Author), Helmfried Von Lüttichau, Stefan Kurt, Werner Wölbern (Narrator)

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Moby Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it 'one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world' and 'the greatest book of the sea ever written'. Its opening sentence, 'Call me Ishmael', is among world literature's most famous. Melville began writing Moby-Dick in February 1850, and finished 18 months later, a year longer than he had anticipated. Melville drew on his experience as a common sailor from 1841 to 1844, including several years on whalers, and on wide reading in whaling literature. The white whale is modeled on the notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the book's ending is based on the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820. His literary influences include Shakespeare and the Bible. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. In addition to narrative prose, Melville uses styles and literary devices ranging from songs, poetry, and catalogs to Shakespearean stage directions, soliloquies, and asides. In August 1850, with the manuscript perhaps half finished, he met Nathaniel Hawthorne and was deeply moved by his Mosses from an Old Manse, which he compared to Shakespeare in its cosmic ambitions. This encounter may have inspired him to revise and expand Moby-Dick, which is dedicated to Hawthorne, 'in token of my admiration for his genius'. The book was first published (in three volumes) as The Whale in London in October 1851, and under its definitive title in a single-volume edition in New York in November. The London publisher, Richard Bentley, censored or changed sensitive passages; Melville made revisions as well, including a last-minute change to the title for the New York edition. The whale, however, appears in the text of both editions as Moby Dick, without the hyphen. Reviewers in Britain were largely favorable, though some objected that the tale seemed to be told by a narrator who perished with the ship, as the British edition lacked the Epilogue recounting Ishmael's survival. American reviewers were more hostile. About 3,200 copies of the book were sold during the author's life.

Herman Melville (Author), Stewart Wills (Narrator)

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