I Would Prefer Not To

Essential Stories

AvHerman Melville

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A cynical lightning rod salesman plies his trade by exploiting fears in stormy weather. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-09-30
Mått:120 x 165 x 21 mm
Vikt:232 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pushkin Collection
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Pushkin Press
ISBN:9781782277460

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Klassiska romaner/Klassiker inom Skönlitteratur
Noveller inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville abandoned fiction writing in 1857, turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.