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An edition of The Complete Shorter Fiction (1997)

Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)

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Contains:

The Piazza Tales:
The Piazza
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The lightning-rod man
The encantadas, or enchanted isles
The bell-tower

Fragments from a writing desk
Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack"
Hawthorne and his mosses
The happy failure
The fiddler
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs
The two temples
The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids
Jimmy Rose
The 'gees
I and my chimney
The apple-tree table
John Marr
Billy Budd

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Everyman's Library Ltd
Language
English
Pages
528

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Subjects

American Short Stories, Manners and customs in fiction, Manners and customs, Fiction, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, short stories, Securities industry. literature, classics, Sailors, Ship captains, Executions and executioners, Impressment, Sea stories, adult readers, Study and teaching, Historical Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author)

People

Billy Budd, Edward Fairfax Vere, John Claggart, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Benito Cereno, Jimmy Rose, John Marr

Places

New York, Wall Street

Times

19th century

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Cover of: The Complete Shorter Fiction
The Complete Shorter Fiction
1997, Alfred A. Knopf
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Cover of: Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
May 1997, Everyman's Library Ltd
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Hardcover
Number of pages
528
Dimensions
8.2 x 5.3 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.3 pounds

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OL8998554M
ISBN 10
1857152328
ISBN 13
9781857152326
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91787
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1972592

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