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Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville : Introduction by John Updike by Herman. Melville (1997, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375400680
ISBN-139780375400681
eBay Product ID (ePID)716326
Product Key Features
Book TitleComplete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville : Introduction by John Updike
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman. Melville
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-102392
ReviewsWe are, perhaps, after a century of literary wastelands, able to read not only a personal predicament but a general truth in Melville's blasted islands, bedevilled slave ships, misshapen houses, falling towers, ticking tables, ghastly factories, sickly cottages, and blank brick city walls. The appetite for truth is what gives Melville's narratives their persistent interest and, even under the spell of discouragement, their untoward verbal energy ... Like Billy Budd, Melville when a sailor on a man-of-war was a top-man, at home on the highest yards, enjoying the widest view ... Melville instinctively aspired to the grandest scale, and even in his shorter works offers vast inklings and the resonance of cosmic concerns.|9780375400681|
SynopsisHerman 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.
LC Classification NumberPS2382 1997
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