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Redburn : His First Voyage.
Sea voyages and the vagaries of life on a ship are constant themes in the work of Herman Melville. In the novel Redburn, Melville sharply contrasts the refined sensibilities of the title character, an upper-class American youth, with the coarse manners of his Liverpudlian shipmates. The novel is not...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Auckland :
Floating Press,
1849.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; I
- How Wellingborough Redburn''s Taste for the Sea was Born and Bred in Him; II
- Redburn''s Departure from Home; III
- He Arrives in Town; IV
- How He Disposed of His Fowling-Piece; V
- He Purchases His Sea-Wardrobe, and on a Dismal Rainy Day Picks Up His Board and Lodging Along the Wharves; VI
- He is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-Pen, and Slushing Down the Top-Mast; VII
- He Gets to Sea and Feels Very Bad; VIII
- He is Put into the Larboard Watch; Gets Sea-Sick; And Relates Some Other of His Experiences
- IX
- The Sailors Becoming a Little Social, Redburn Converses with ThemX
- He is Very Much Frightened; The Sailors Abuse Him; And He Becomes Miserable and Forlorn; XI
- He Helps Wash the Decks, and then Goes to Breakfast; XII
- He Gives Some Account of One of His Shipmates Called Jackson; XIII
- He Has a Fine Day at Sea, Begins to Like it; But Changes His Mind; XIV
- He Contemplates Making a Social Call on the Captain in His Cabin; XV
- The Melancholy State of His Wardrobe; XVI
- At Dead of Night He is Sent Up to Loose the Main-Skysail; XVII
- The Cook and Steward
- XVIII
- He Endeavors to Improve His Mind And Tells of One Blunt and His Dream Book; XIX
- A Narrow Escape; XX
- In a Fog He is Set to Work as a Bell-Toller, and Beholds a Herd of Ocean-Elephants; XXI
- A Whaleman and a Man-Of-War''s-Man; XXII
- The Highlander Passes a Wreck; XXIII
- An Unaccountable Cabin-Passenger, and a Mysterious Young Lady; XXIV
- He Begins to Hop About in the Rigging Like a Saint Jago''s Monkey; XXV
- Quarter-Deck Furniture; XXVI
- A Sailor a Jack of All Trades; XXVII
- He Gets a Peep at Ireland, and at Last Arrives at Liverpool
- XXVIII
- He Goes to Supper at the Sign of the Baltimore ClipperXXIX
- Redburn Deferentially Discourses Concerning the Prospects of Sailors; XXX
- Redburn Grows Intolerably Flat and Stupid Over Some Outlandish Old Guide-Books; XXXI
- With His Prosy Old Guide-Book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll through the Town; XXXII
- The Docks; XXXIII
- The Salt-Droghers, and German Emigrant Ships; XXXIV
- The Irrawaddy; XXXV
- Galliots, Coast-Of-Guinea-Man, and Floating Chapel; XXXVI
- The Old Church of St. Nicholas, and the Dead-House; XXXVII
- What Redburn Saw in Launcelott''s-Hey
- XXXVIII
- The Dock-Wall BeggarsXXXIX
- The Booble-Alleys of the Town; XL
- Placards, Brass-Jewelers, Truck-Horses, and Steamers; XLI
- Redburn Roves About Hither and Thither; XLII
- His Adventure with the Cross Old Gentleman; XLIII
- He Takes a Delightful Ramble into the Country; And Makes the Acquaintance of Three Adorable Charmers; XLIV
- Redburn Introduces Master Harry Bolton to the Favorable Consideration of the Reader; XLV
- Harry Bolton Kidnaps Redburn, and Carries Him Off to London; XLVI
- A Mysterious Night in London; XLVII
- Homeward Bound; XLVIII
- A Living Corpse; XLIX
- Carlo
- L
- Harry Bolton at Sea