Shorter Novels of Herman Melville
Title | Shorter Novels of Herman Melville PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Adventure stories, American |
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Melville's Short Novels
Title | Melville's Short Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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This Norton Critical Edition presents three of Melville's most important short novels -- Bartleby, The Scrivener; Benito Cereno; and Billy Budd. The texts are accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" offers selections from works that influenced Melville's writing of these three short novles, including, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Transcendentalist" and Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels. Johannes Dietrich Bergmann, H. Bruce Franklin, and Robert M. Cover provide overviews of Melville's probable sources. An unusually rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-eight wide-ranging pieces that often contradict one another and that are sure to promote classroom discussion. Book jacket.
The Shorter Novels
Title | The Shorter Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | |
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Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville
Title | Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1997-10-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Gathers all of Melville's short stories and novellas, including "Billy Budd, Sailor," "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and "Benito Cereno."
Great Short Works of Herman Melville
Title | Great Short Works of Herman Melville PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 006176079X |
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character."
Shorter Novels of Herman Melville
Title | Shorter Novels of Herman Melville PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Manners and customs |
ISBN | 9780871408778 |
Contents: Benito Cereno; Bartleby the Scrivener; The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles; Billy Budd, Foretopman.
Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville
Title | Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Melville |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 1997-10-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0375400680 |
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic passions of Moby-Dick. In a story like "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language -- he displayed an unflinching precision and insight and empathy in his depiction of the drastically alienated inner life of the title character. In "Benito Cereno," he addressed the great racial dilemmas of the nineteenth century with a profound, almost surreal imaginative clarity. And in Billy, Budd, Sailor, the masterpiece of his last years, he fused the knowledge and craft gained from a lifetime's magnificent work into a pure, stark, flawlessly composed tale of innocence betrayed and destroyed. Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind, but his lyricism, his skill in rendering the minute, the particular, the local, was equally sublime.