I and My Chimney
Short story written by Herman Melville and published in 1856 in Putnam's magazine. The narrator feels a strong affinity for the large fireplace in his country house. His wife wants to remove or renovate it...
MELVILLE, Herman
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
First published in New York on April Fools' Day in 1857, it is the ninth and last novel by the American writer Herman Melville. A work of humor (key to interpreting some cynical passages), it tells the...
Bartleby, the Scrivene
Bartleby the scrivener is a story of Wall Street, the area dominated by capitalism, bureaucracy, the business world... That is where the lawyer's office is located, where Bartleby and two other scribes work...
Benito Cereno
Classic novel, published in 1855, based on a true story, which takes place, like almost all of his novels, at sea. A fable of great psychological depth and mystery, at times of terror, confronting the...
Moby Dick
The young narrator, Ismael, decides to go to sea on the whaler Pequod, which was ultimately doomed. Here we are introduced to the harpooner Queequeg, the first-mate Starbuck, Pip the cabin boy and the...