The Complete Shorter Fiction
by Herman Melville
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Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic passions of Moby-Dick. In a story like "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language -- he displayed an unflinching precision and insight and empathy in his depiction of the drastically alienated inner life of the title character. In "Benito Cereno," he addressed the great racial dilemmas of the nineteenth century with a profound, almost surreal imaginative clarity. And in Billy, Budd, Sailor, the masterpiece of his last years, he fused the knowledge and craft gained from a lifetime's magnificent work into a pure, stark, flawlessly composed tale of innocence betrayed and destroyed. Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, the local, was equally sublime.
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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
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Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)
May 1997, Everyman's Library Ltd
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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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