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Herman Melville – författare
- Pocket, Svenska, 2016En sjöman, som vill att vi kallar honom Ismael (vi får aldrig veta hans riktiga namn), kommer en iskall vinterkväll till värdshuset Valfisken i New Bedford. Några lediga rum finns dessvärre inte, och Ismael tvingas välja mellan att tillbringa natten utomhus eller att dela säng med en tatuerad kannibal, harpuneraren Queequeg. Ismael väljer efter stor vånda att sova med Queequeg, och till hans stora förvåning blir de snabbt bästa vänner. Ismael och Queequeg gör sällskap till Nantucket och bestämmer sig för att ge sig ut på valfångstresa tillsammans. Skeppet de mönstrar på heter Pequod. Fartygets oinskränkte härskare är kapten Ahab, vars ena ben blivit avslitet av Moby Dick, en jättelik vit kaskelot. Efter att under lång tid dolt sig för besättningen i sin kajuta träder Ahab en morgon fram och avslöjar att syftet med resan inte är det sedvanliga: att döda så många valar som möjligt. Nej, det är endast en val som måste dö: den vita valen, Moby Dick. Den hämndlystne Ahab är beredd att satsa allt i kampen mot sin fiende. Pequods resa är från och med nu en färd mot undergång eller seger, hämnd eller död. Moby Dick av Herman Melville är det stora amerikanska nationaleposet, ett mästerverk vars skiftande berättartekniker, hisnande perspektiv och profetiska prosa ger en läsupplevelse som både är tidlös och chockerande, modern och uråldrig, undflyende och djupt meningsfull. Historien om kapten Ahab och Moby Dick är berättelsen om en kamp som aldrig upphör, den mellan människa och natur, mellan Gud och Satan, mellan tro och vetenskap.
- Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. More than just a novel of adventure, this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception. - Häftad, Svenska, 2024
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Betyg fem av fem. Viktor Andersson, BTJ. "Vilken underbar, underbar novell det är", Josefin de Gregorio, SvD. "Novellen hör till novellkonstens genuina mästerverk... Det är inte bara en novell som finsmakare vördar, det här är en politisk text med potential att i grunden förändra vår livshållning." Bernur. "Nästan lika kanoniserad som Moby Dick... Utmärkt översättning", Rebecka Kärde, Dagens Nyheter "Äntligen finns en av mina favoriter bland klassiker i nyutgåva!" Yukiko Duke, Vi Läser. Herman Melvilles berättelse Bartleby, skrivaren i nyöversättning och med efterord av Marie Berthelius. Romanens berättare är advokat i New York. Till sin hjälp har han anställt tre skrivare vilka samtliga sköter sina arbetsuppgifter både plikttroget och noggrant. Efter en tid behöver han anställa en fjärde skrivare. Det blir Bartleby. Även denne arbetar till att börja med både plikttroget och noggrant. Han renskriver raskt varje protokoll han får på sin pulpet. Inte nog med det, han verkar leva för sitt arbete, verkar inte ha några vänner och inga fritidsintressen. Så en dag, när Bartleby ges ännu ett protokoll att renskriva, fäller han den märkliga repliken: "Jag föredrar att inte göra det." Advokaten, hans chef, tror först inte att han hört rätt. "Vadå föredrar? Jag ger er nu i uppdrag att renskriva detta dokument. Sätt igång!" Men svaret kvarstår: "Jag föredrar att inte göra det." Så svarar Bartleby i fortsättningen på alla uppmaningar. Varje gång han får en arbetsuppgift säger han med alldeles lugn röst att han "föredrar att inte göra det". Chefen anstränger sig för att tala den halsstarrige tillrätta, men lyckas inte det minsta. Bartleby är orubblig. Han håller benhårt fast vid sitt raka besked - han föredrar att inte utföra det som åläggs honom. Sakta men säkert driver han både chefen och kollegorna närapå till vansinne. Och detta stillsamma beteende får allt större förvecklingar, det hela går mycket längre än man först kunde tro. Herman Melvilles berömda kortroman har nyöversatts av Marie Berthelius som också skrivit efterordet. Berättelsen skrevs 1853 och betraktades först som en parentes i Melvilles omfångsrika författarskap, som domineras av den makalösa romanen Moby Dick - vilken med tiden blivit ett av den amerikanska litteraturens mest centrala verk - men också den lilla historien Bartleby har blivit klassisk. Huvudpersonens underliga beteende har under snart två sekler lockat till otaliga tolkningsförsök. Bartlebys lilla beslutsamma minirevolt med mild röst blir på något vis en alldeles fruktansvärd, en alldeles ohygglig handling som ifrågasätter själva grunden i arbetslivet. För var skulle vi hamna om alla skulle börja känna efter hur det egentligen känns? Herman Melvilles kortroman Bartleby, skrivaren i översättning och med efterord av Marie Berthelius. ISBN 978-91-7742-620-2. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar. 96 sidor. - Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
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I samma stund som Ismael hör kapten Ahab berätta om valen som tog hans ben inser han att Ahabs hämndlystna jakt på något sätt också är hans egen. I vad som ofta kallats den största amerikanska romanen får vi följa besättningen på skeppet Pequod i deras sökande efter den mytomspunna vita valen Moby Dick. Det blir ett sökande som driver dem till gränsen för vad den mänskliga viljan och besattheten är kapabel till, och ställer dem öga mot öga med naturens obeveklighet. D. H. Lawrence kallade romanen »en av världens märkligaste och mest underbara böcker«, William Faulkner önskade att han själv skrivit den, och Bob Dylan har lyft fram den som en av sina viktigaste inspirationskällor. Moby Dick publicerades 1851 och räknas som en av litteraturhistoriens stora romaner. Här i översättning av Hugo Hultenberg.
HERMAN MELVILLE [1819-1891], född i New York, var en amerikansk författare och poet. Som tjugoåring tog han anställning som sjöman på ett handelsfartyg med vilket han seglade till Franska Polynesien, där han mönstrade av. Hans erfarenheter till sjöss kom sedan att ligga till grund för flera av hans böcker, inte minst mästerverket Moby Dick. I dag betraktas Melville som en av de största amerikanska författarna.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk.'Call me Ishmael.'So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil. More than just a novel of adventure, more than an paean to whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting social commentary, populated by some of the most enduring characters in literature; the crew of the Pequod, from stern, Quaker First Mate Starbuck, to the tattooed Polynesian harpooner Queequeg, are a vision of the world in microcosm, the pinnacle of Melville's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is a profound, poetic inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.Based on the Northwestern University Press edition, this Penguin Classics edition includes a critical introduction by Andrew Delbanco, as well as valuable explanatory notes, maps, illustrations and a glossary of nautical terms.Herman Melville is now regarded as one of America's greatest novelists. Much of the material for his novels was drawn from his own experience as a seaman aboard whaling ships. He wrote his masterpiece Moby-Dick in 1851, and died in 1891.If you enjoyed Moby-Dick, you may like Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, also available in Penguin Classics.'After reading Moby-Dick, you will have enhanced your sense of wonder, you will have increased the size of your universe'E. M. Forster'One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world ... It moves awe in the soul'D. H. Lawrence - Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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"It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this."Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's other "meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways", is beguiled into joining Captain Ahab in his vengeful pursuit of the white whale that "dismasted" him. But along the way, Ishmael takes the reader along many a detour into variegated ways of knowing. In a tone "strangely compounded of fun and fury", Moby-Dick brings outlandish curiosity to bear on the multitudinous, oceanic scale of our diverse world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. - Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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The text here is based on Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford’s 1967 edition, footnoted to include biographical discoveries. Reviews, letters by Melville and belated praise is collected, and a wealth of new biographical material has been added, while new research is highlighted. Parker also explores what writing Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Imagine a literary experience that takes you deep into the heart of the sea, where the line between man and nature blurs into an epic tale of obsession and revenge.Moby-Dick brings to life the unrelenting pursuit of the elusive white whale led by the formidable Captain Ahab. Herman Melville's monumental novel captures the essence of a thrilling maritime adventure while examining the profound psychological and philosophical battles that plague humanity.The Dover Bookshelf presents this sweeping narrative that showcases the overpowering beauty and danger of the ocean, complemented by symbolism and poetic prose. The story unfolds in this beautifully designed hardcover edition, with a step back in time to the great age of Yankee whaling. Moby-Dick is a rich exploration of the human spirit, the futility of vengeance, and the eternal struggle between humankind and the wild. - Inbunden, Engelska, 1981
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This trade edition of "Moby-Dick" is a reduced version of the Arion Press "Moby-Dick", which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan". The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of "Moby-Dick" used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library. This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased. - Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
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This is about the quest of Captain Ahab, a man consumed by his obsession with a legendary, giant white whale, Moby Dick. As the ship sails into dangerous waters, The captain's hysterical pursuit becomes a symbol for the inherent, often destructive, nature of human ambition. "Moby-Dick" is not merely a tale of daring do; it is a profound meditation on the human condition itself. It can be read as part thriller, part sea adventure and part allegory. - Häftad, Engelska, 2013
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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee…’Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature. - Del 2 - Maj Bylocks äventyrs-klassiker
Moby Dick : den vita valen
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Ismael letar efter äventyr och mönstrar på ett valfångstfartyg. Han vet att det är ett tufft jobb och han får hjälp av sin nyfunne vän, harpuneraren Queequeg. Det de inte vet är att skeppets kapten drivs av ett hämndbegär så stort att det äventyrar allas liv på skeppet. Det ända kapten Ahab vill är att hitta och döda Moby Dick, den vita valen. Hegas böcker – lätta att läsa. Svåra att motstå. - Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry.One of the great American novels, if not the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil. - Häftad, Engelska, 1983
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This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. The text of Moby-Dick used in this edition is based on that used in the critical edition of Melville's works published by the Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library. This reduced version is smaller in size than the Arion edition and the California deluxe edition, but it includes all of the original pages and illustrations. It is printed in black only throughout, and it is not slipcased. - Del 3 - Arcturus Treasured Classics
Moby Dick
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025247 kr
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This deluxe edition presents Herman Melville's classic nautical adventure novel, Moby Dick, in a striking hardback edition with gold cover accents and printed page edges. Described by D. H. Lawrence as "the greatest book of the sea ever written" and now heralded as a classic of American literature, Moby Dick tells the story of sailer Ishmael who signs up for a voyage aboard the Pequod, bound for the tropics. But what Ishmael believes to be an ordinary whale hunt turns out to be nothing less than a voyage of revenge led by the imposing "ungodly, god-like" Captain Ahab. For Ahab has already lost one of his legs to the great White Whale, Moby Dick. And this time, driven by a tremendous inner rage, he is determined to pursue him to the death.Part of the Arcturus Treasured Classics series, this beautiful gift edition provides an exquisite way to enjoy this classic work.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Treasured Classics series brings together celebrated literary masterworks, beautifully presented in hardback gift editions with cover embossing and printed page edges.
- Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.American writer Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851 but it took decades before it was finally regarded as a great American novel, and worthy of its place among the greatest texts of humankind. A tale of imagination and adventure, it recounts the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of a whaling ship seeking vengeance on Moby Dick, the white whale that had bitten off his leg on a previous voyage. - Häftad, Engelska, 2010
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In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound enquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception. - Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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Complete and unabridged.Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an afterword by Nigel Cliff.On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. - Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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- E-bokSvenska, 2026
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Vad gör man när en anställd plötsligt, och med oerhörd artighet, vägrar att utföra sina arbetsuppgifter?
På ett advokatkontor på Wall Street flyter tillvaron på i en invand rytm. Advokaten, en man som värdesätter metodik och trygghet, anställer den anspråkslöse Bartleby som skrivbiträde. Till en början arbetar han med en närmast övermänsklig flit, men snart infinner sig en märklig förändring. När han blir ombedd att utföra en enkel uppgift svarar han bara: ”Jag vill helst inte.”
Detta enkla svar blir början på en serie händelser som sakta men säkert raserar kontorets ordning och advokatens världsbild. Är det en tyst protest, ett uttryck för en djupare melankoli eller kanske en gåta som inte går att lösa? Genom en ny, modern språkdräkt får vi återigen stifta bekantskap med en av litteraturhistoriens mest oförglömliga och gåtfulla figurer.
Detta är en tidlös berättelse som i en lättillgänglig svensk översättning bjuder in till reflektion över mänsklig isolering, passivt motstånd och den ensamhet som kan dölja sig mitt i en myllrande storstad. En berättelse som dröjer sig kvar långt efter att sista sidan är vänd.
- E-bokEngelska, 2020
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"Moby-Dick"; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is sailor Ishmael''s narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship''s previous voyage bit off Ahab''s leg at the knee. (Wikipedia) - E-bokEngelska, 2013
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.The young sailor Ishmael befriends a tattooed Polynesian harpooner named Queequeg, and finds himself aboard the Pequod, which is captained by the obsessive Captain Ahab. Not long after the voyage has begun, Ahab tells the crew about his secret plot to hunt down the whale that crippled him on a previous voyage, Moby Dick. The crew of the Pequod are also after as much sperm oil as their ship can carry, and the account of the crew’s years-long pursuit of the White Whale is interspersed with detailed and encyclopaedic descriptions of a whaler’s life. Melville unites narrative virtuosity with a lifetime of sailing experience in perhaps the single most important classic of American literature. - E-bokEngelska, 2014
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!’It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero – the `Handsome Sailor’ – to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Budd is forced to defend himself, but his fearful, silent response soon gives way to a terrible act of violence. The consequences are disastrous, and nothing can prevent the force of judgment and eventual justice upon him. Discovered among Melville’s papers after his death and published posthumously in 1924, `Billy Budd’ is a powerful tale of guilt and innocence, crime and punishment, and the cost of adhering to duty.From the author of `Moby Dick’, Melville’s allegorical tales are loaded with symbolism, and showcase his distinctive writing style and themes in shorter form. - Häftad, Engelska, 2016
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Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity. Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the greatest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee…’ - Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee…’ Few literary masterpieces cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest for the white whale is a timeless epic – a thrilling tale of vengeance and obsession, and a searing parable about humanity lost in a universe of moral ambiguity.Inspired by true events, Moby Dick is a work of astonishing psychological depth. It is perhaps the finest sea story ever told and one of the great classics of literature. - Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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- E-bokEngelska, 2009
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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."
- Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence. Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville, including "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street," "The Happy Failure," and "The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids." Alongside THE HAPPY FAILURE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Alex Burrett's forthcoming collection, MY GOAT ATE ITS OWN LEGS, will be printed at the back of this volume.