The complete shorter fiction /

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

The complete shorter fiction / Herman Melville ; with an introduction by John Updike. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. - xli, 478 p. ; 21 cm. - Everyman's library. .

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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Adventure stories, American.
Sea stories, American.
United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

PS2382 / 1997

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