I Would Prefer Not to: Essential Stories - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Herman MelvilleSeries:Essential StoriesPublish date:2021-10-26Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Pushkin CollectionISBN-13:9781782277460ISBN-10:1782277463UPC:9781782277460Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:6.46 x 4.72 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC6K5RC380
A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Pushkin CollectionISBN-13:9781782277460ISBN-10:1782277463UPC:9781782277460Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Classics, LiterarySize:6.46 x 4.72 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC6K5RC380
Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville largely abandoned fiction writing after 1857, turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.
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