Great Short Works of Herman MelvilleHarper Collins, 2004 M03 2 - 512 páginas Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character." |
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CockADoodleDoo or The Crowing of the Noble | 75 |
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles | 98 |
The Two Temples | 151 |
Poor Mans Pudding and Rich Mans Crumbs | 165 |
A Story of the River Hudson | 179 |
Benito Cereno | 238 |
Jimmy Rose 816 | 316 |
and My Chimney | 327 |
The Gees | 355 |
The AppleTree Table or Original Spiritual | 362 |
The Piazza | 383 |
The Marquis de Grandvin | 396 |
Three Jack Gentian Sketches | 402 |
The LightningRod Man | 187 |
The Fiddler | 195 |
The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids | 202 |
The BellTower | 223 |
John Marr | 417 |
Daniel Orme | 424 |
A Selected Bibliography | 506 |
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