Author: Herman Melville
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 1 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Reluctant Poet, Inc.
Published: 03/18/2025
Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet, best known for his novels of the sea, including his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851).
Called “in a class by himself” by Oprah Daily, and “a master in his field” by The New York Times, Edoardo Ballerini is an award-winning and celebrated narrator of audiobooks.
What a pleasure it is to return to a work of genius and find it inexhaustible! What a host of insights, what a web of subtleties, are contained within this short account of the breakdown of one man in a five man office! I think of Melville the sailor, accustomed to wide sea vistas and many sea duties......more
Ah, Bartleby. Ah, Humanity. At first, as I tried to contain my surprise that Melville, who awed me in Moby Dick, was now writing with such humour and lightness, I felt that Bartleby was a Heroic figure, someone to be admired and emulated - and a welcome break from the complicated characters of the do......more
- لا ادري اذا كان يصح اطلاق تسمية "الأثر المفتوح" على هذه القصة او الرواية القصيرة، فهي مبنية على الإحتمالات والتأويلات الذاتية لكل قارئ، على الأسئلة التي تطرح نفسها مع كل بداية مقطع، على الإفتراضات او الفرضيات التي نضعها لنكتشف لاحقاً خطوطاً متوازية اكثر وفرضيات واحتمالات بالجملة... لذلك "اظن" ان ا......more
This classic 1853 Herman Melville novella is absurd and bleak, darkly humorous and heart-wrenching at the same time. It's the first time I've read it since a college English course years ago, when I didn’t much care for it. I appreciated it much more this time around. Bartleby is a scrivener - essent......more
“Golden Voice narrator Edoardo Ballerini captures the intelligent, genteel, and, finally, compassionate voice of the narrator of this classic story…The listener is then led into Herman Mellville’s fascinating examination of loneliness, abandonment, and depression in nineteenth-century society. With assurance and a fine ear for detail Ballerini delivers this sensitive, unsparing 1853 classic.” AudioFile