| Description |
390 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Unconscious duplicity: Bartleby, the scrivener.--High-spirited revolt: Cock-a-doodle-doo.--An hourglass run out: The Encantadas.--Some sly enchanter's show: The two temples.--Making sport of earnest: Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs.--The talismanic secret: The happy failure and The fiddler.--Grand irregular thunder: The lightning-rod man.--Travelers in Lapland: The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.--Cynic solitaire: The bell-tower.--A dark similitude: Benito Cereno.--The higher mathematics: I and my chimney.--Wedded warmth and chill: Jimmy Rose.--One spot of radiance: The piazza.--Mystery as mystery: The apple-tree table |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| LC no. |
76028922 |
| ISBN |
0820304115 |
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