Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The complete shorter fiction

Oclc number

37908066

Responsibility statement

Herman Melville ; with an introduction by John Updike

Series statement

Everyman's library, 232

Summary

Gathers all of Melville's short stories and novellas, including "Billy Budd, Sailor, " "Bartleby, the Scrivener, " and "Benito Cereno."

Table Of 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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