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An edition of Great Short Works of Herman Melville (1940)

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

2nd Perennial Library Edition (23)

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Collection of 22 stories:

The Town-Ho's Story
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Cock-A-Doodle Doo
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
The Two Temples
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs
The Happy Failure
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 Grandivn
Three "Jack Gentian Sketches"
John Marr
Daniel Orme
Billy Budd

Publish Date
Publisher
Perennial Library
Language
English
Pages
510

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Subjects

Classic Literature, Fiction, literature, Young men, Copyists, Psychology, Securities industry, classics, Sailors, Ship captains, Executions and executioners, Impressment, Sea stories, Adult readers, Study and teaching, Historical Fiction, Psychological fiction, Humorous stories, Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), American fiction (fictional works by one author)

People

Benito Cereno, Jimmy Rose, Jack Gentian, John Marr, Daniel Orme, Bartleby, Turkey, Nippers, Ginger Nut, John Jacob Astor, Cicero, Billy Budd, Edward Fairfax Vere, John Claggart

Places

New York, Wall Street

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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
2006, HarperCollins
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)
March 2, 2004, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
March 2004, Tandem Library
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
1996, Perennial Library
Paperback in English - 2nd Perennial Library Edition (23)
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
1983, Harper & Row Publishers
Paperback in English - 2nd Perennial Classic edition (13)
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Cover of: Great short works of Herman Melville.
Great short works of Herman Melville.
1970, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Great short works of Herman Melville
Great short works of Herman Melville
1969, Harper & Row
in English - 2nd Perennial Classic ed.
Cover of: Great short works.
Great short works.: With an introd. by Jerry Allen.
1966, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Great short works of Herman Melville.
Great short works of Herman Melville.
1966, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classic; P3094)
Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classic; P3094)
June 1940, Peter Smith Publisher Inc
Hardcover
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Table of Contents

The Town-Ho's Story
Bartleby, the Scrivenener
Cock-A-Doodle Doo
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
The Two Temples
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs
The Happy Failure
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 Grandivn
Three "Jack Gentian Sketches"
John Marr
Daniel Orme
Billy Budd, Sailor
A Selected Bibliography
Chronology

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 506-507.

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
1969

Contributors

Introduction
Warner Berthoff
Editor
Warner Berthoff

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
510 p. ;
Number of pages
510

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL14423892M
Internet Archive
greatshortworkso00herm_0
ISBN 10
0060830948
ISBN 13
9780060830946
LCCN
73158187
OCLC/WorldCat
924852962, 503312453
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0060830948
Library Thing
35991
Goodreads
47843199

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