The Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Synopsis

Contains Twenty-two Short Fiction Works By Nineteenth-century American Author Herman Melville, Including Billy Budd, Sailor, The Story Of A Sailor Who Is Sentenced To Death After Striking And Killing A Superior Officer Who Had Falsely Accused Him Of Plotting Mutiny. 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. Edited With An Introduction By Warner Berthoff. Bibliography: P. 506-507.