MELVILLE, Herman

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...