Wat hebben onder andere The White Stripes, Amy Winehouse, Janelle Monáe en Katy Perry gemeen? Juist, allemaal zijn ze ontdekt op het South by Southwest Festival. Daarmee kun je...

Call me Ishmael is one of the most famous opening lines in American literature. With these words, opens one of the strangest and most gripping stories ever written about the sea...

On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the...

Herman Heijermans publiceerde onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkland columns vanaf 1894 in De Telegraaf en later vanaf 1896 in het Algemeen Handelsblad. Hij maakte er meer dan 600...

A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening during a performance. Helen Hardwick happened to be in attendance that...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (18191891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and...

Het boek Gevleugelde Daden van Herman Heijermans Jr. werd uitgegeven in 1911 (sommige bronnen zeggen 1908) onder het pseudoniem Samuel Falkland. Het boek heeft als ondertitel:...

Mardi is Melvilles first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates mans beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over another--or is it all simply a sham?...

Text of famous inspirational lecture and biography of Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister and Temple University Founder

Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign...