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Filippo Scotti legge Bartleby lo scrivano di Hermann Melville, un audiolibro della collana "Anche i giovani leggono i classici", con cui Audiolibri Salani propone grandi classici della letteratura internazionale interpretati da celebri volti giovani in una chiave moderna e coinvolgente.

Questo breve romanzo narra la storia di Bartleby, un giovane impiegato come scrivano in uno studio legale di New York. Bartleby è un individuo molto particolare e, dopo un periodo di lavoro diligente, inizia a rispondere "preferirei di no" a tutte le richieste che gli vengono rivolte.

A deeply influential novel from one of America's greatest authors, White-Jacket presents a view of life aboard a 19th-century navy ship that is equal parts humorous and sobering. Published a year before his masterpiece Moby-Dick, White-Jacket is based on Herman Melville's own experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844.

Representing the dark underbelly of Romanticism and beyond, these stories reach the shadowy corners of the human soul as seen through the writings of some of the most prominent authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In this novella, an elderly man, who has endured a lengthy period of imprisonment for murder, relates how he has become reconciled with his incarceration. Prison has not made him bitter or robbed him of his intellectual acuity, but it may have put at risk his ability to function effectively as a free man after his release.

Leonid Andreyev spent most of the last decade of his life in the Finnish village Vammelsu, near the Black Rivulet, where he built for himself a villa. The village was close to the sea, and Andreyev spent many hours exploring the local seas in his yacht.

Leonid Andreyev was one of the major literary artists at the turn of the 20th century and is widely regarded as perhaps the most talented and prolific representative of the "Silver Age" period of Russian literature. The Seven Who Were Hanged is considered by many to be his masterpiece.

Questo libro, pubblicato nel 1851 senza alcun successo, e riscoperto nel 1921, quando evidentemente il pubblico, maturato, poteva apprezzarlo, è considerato un capolavoro della letteratura americana, e si è talmente tanto radicato nell'inconscio collettivo che il nome di Moby Dick ha assunto ovunque il significato dell Assoluto irraggiungibile e della inevitabile sconfitta dell'orgoglio umano di fronte alle forze metafisiche.

Homeless Bodies and Other Stories is an original fiction podcast featuring audio-exclusive short stories from award-winning authors and Sunday Times best-sellers, inspired by objects & artefacts from Wellcome Collection's permanent exhibition, 'Medicine Man', in London.

L'incredibile avventura del Capitano Ahab e di "Moby Dick", la grande balena bianca, in lingua inglese! Una collana di Classici della letteratura in lingua originale, per giovani desiderosi di imparare una nuova lingua, in forma ridotta per renderli più facili. Pubblicati come audiolibri per permettere di apprendere in modo ancora più semplice la pronuncia delle parole.

Ignoring prophecies of doom, the seafarer Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling expedition that is an obsession for the ship's captain, Ahab. Once maimed by the White Whale, Moby Dick, Ahab has set out on a voyage of revenge. With godlike ferocity, he surges into dangerous waters - immune to the madness of his vision, refusing to be bested by the forces of nature.

Die meisten Eltern hören eines Tages von ihren Kindern Fragen, die mit dem "lieben Gott" zu tun haben...

Die meisten Eltern hören eines Tages von ihren Kindern Fragen, die mit dem "lieben Gott" zu tun haben...

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most...

Háfiz (1315-1390) was a lyric poet, a major figure in classical Persian literature. The compendious anthology of his poetry simply titled the Divan contains several hundred odes, from which this small selection was made by the translator. In the introduction Bicknell writes: ...we must look upon Háfiz as one of the few poets in the world who utters an unbroken strain of joy and contentment. His poverty was to him a constant fountain of satisfaction, and he frankly took the natural joys of life as they came....

Die meisten Eltern hören eines Tages von ihren Kindern Fragen, die mit dem "lieben Gott" zu tun haben: Wie sieht Gott denn aus...

Als Kapitän Ahab mit seiner Mannschaft in See sticht, beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise. Die Männer sind auf der Jagd nach Moby Dick, dem weißen Wal. Unermüdlich kämpfen sie sich durch stürmische Meere und überwinden unvorhergesehen Gefahren...

Der Ex-Drummer der Scorpions erzählt im Interview mit Radiomoderator Klausch Götsch über sein Leben als Mitglied der Hannoveraner Metal-Band...

Mama und Papa Eisbär müssen mit ihrem Sohn Benjamin ihre Eisscholle verlassen, weil es auf der Erde immer wärmer wird...

This is the inspiring children's story of Stephen Curry, a boy who became a star. This is the story of a young boy who nobody believed could be an NBA super star because he was too small. But he decided to follow his dream, worked hard, and overcame all obstacles to become one of the best basketball players in history. Perfect gift for all basketball fans. Perfect audiobook to teach children to work hard to make their dreams come true.

If you don't know Melville's letters to Hawthorne, you don't know Melville. These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are literary works in themselves. This correspondence has been out of print for decades, and even when it was in print it appeared in scholarly volumes of Melville's complete correspondence, aimed at the academy.