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

Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)

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

Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)

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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

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Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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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Cover of: Great Short Works of Herman Melville
Great Short Works of Herman Melville
2006, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
March 2004, Tandem Library
Hardcover in English
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Cover of: Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)
Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classics)
March 2, 2004, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Paperback in English
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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
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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 of Herman Melville.
Great short works of Herman Melville.
1966, Harper & Row
in English
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 (Perennial Classic; P3094)
Great Short Works of Herman Melville (Perennial Classic; P3094)
June 1940, Peter Smith Publisher Inc
Hardcover
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First Sentence

"BRIMMING over with the creative confidence and ambition he was pouring into the writing of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, in the summer of 1850, published an enthusiastic appreciation of the stories and sketches of his fellow countryman, Nathaniel Hawthorne."

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Library of Congress
PS2382

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
510
Dimensions
8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
Weight
14.4 ounces

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OL9234011M
ISBN 10
0060586540
ISBN 13
9780060586546
Library Thing
35991
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3731

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