Great short works of Herman Melville / edited with an introduction by Warner Berthoff.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Works. Selections. 1969
Perennial classic ; P3094.
Main Author: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Other Authors: Berthoff, Warner
Language:English
Published: New York : Perennial Library, [1969], ©1969.
Edition:Second Perennial classic edition.
Series:Perennial classic ; P3094.
Physical Description:510 pages ; 19 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The town-ho's story
  • Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall Street
  • Cock-a-doodle-doo! or, the crowing of the noble cock Beneventano
  • The encantadas or enchanted isles
  • The two temples
  • Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs
  • The happy failure: a story of the river Hudson
  • The lightning-rod man
  • The fiddler.
  • The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids
  • The bell tower
  • Benito Cereno
  • Jimmy Rose
  • I and my chimney
  • The 'gees
  • The apple tree table, or original spiritual manifestations
  • The piazza
  • The Marquis de Grandvin
  • Three "Jack Gentian sketches"
  • John Marr
  • Daniel Orme
  • Billy Budd, sailor.