The complete shorter fiction / Herman Melville ; with an introduction by John Updike.

By: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891Contributor(s): Updike, JohnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Everyman's libraryPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997Description: xli, 478 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0375400680; 9780375400681Uniform titles: Short stories. Subject(s): Adventure stories, American | Sea stories, American | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionDDC classification: 813.3 LOC classification: PS2382 | 1997Online resources: Publisher description
Contents:
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, sailor.
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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, sailor.

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