Jan 18 ~~ Since reading Melville In Love I have been enjoying my own personal Melville revival. I have read all the other selections (except for two sketches) in another book which I reviewed a couple of years ago. Jan 15 ~~ I got this book for Billy Budd. The apple-tree table, or Original spiritual manifestations. The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids. Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs -The happy failure : a story of the river Hudson. 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."īartleby, the scrivener : a story of Wall-Street -Ĭock-a-doodle-doo! or, The crowing of the noble cock Beneventano. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. 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. 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. Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history.
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