Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville
By Herman Melville
Introduction by John Updike
By Herman Melville
Introduction by John Updike
Part of Everyman's Library Classics Series
Category: Classic Fiction | Short Stories
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$28.00
Oct 15, 1997 | ISBN 9780375400681
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Praise
"We 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.
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