Complete Shorter Fiction Of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375400681

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Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville by Herman Melville Pdf

Herman 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.

Author : William B. Dillingham
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820332710

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Melville's Short Fiction, 1853-1856 by William B. Dillingham Pdf

This study treats comprehensively the sixteen short works of fiction that Herman Melville wrote between 1853 and 1856, most of which were published in Harper's and Putnam's magazines. Concentrating on the writer's two basic motivations for writing as he did in these stories, Dillingham argues that Melville created a surface of almost inane congeniality in many of the works, an illusion of vapidity that camouflages a profundity often missed by his readers. He sought to to hide disturbing themes because the magazines for which he was writing would almost certainly have rejected his attempts to be more direct. Dillingham's method is not, however, confined to a reading of the texts. Melville's stories contain so many allusions to the contemporary scene that they constitute in themselves a cultural study. An important contribution of Melville's Short Fiction is its discussion of these allusions. Finally, Dillingham examines the relationship between the short fiction and Melville's own life. Much of the writer's frustration and struggle is concealed in these early works. Melville's friendship with Hawthorne, for example, an intense and yet in some ways disappointing relationship for both men, is explored as an important influence on several of the stories.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871401223

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Shorter Novels of Herman Melville by Herman Melville Pdf

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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Sea stories, American
ISBN : UOM:39015064906913

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Shorter Novels of Herman Melville by Herman Melville Pdf

Author : Robert Bruce Bickley
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003806879

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The Method of Melville's Short Fiction by Robert Bruce Bickley Pdf

The relationship between literary technique and vision in Melville may be closer in the short stories of the 1850s than anywhere else in his fiction.

Author : Herman Melville,Raymond Melbourne Weaver
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0449307980

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The Shorter Novels of Herman Melville by Herman Melville,Raymond Melbourne Weaver Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061760792

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Great Short Works of Herman Melville by Herman Melville Pdf

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."

Author : Lea Bertani Vozar Newman
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : MINN:319510013237295

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A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Herman Melville by Lea Bertani Vozar Newman Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015051891045

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Melville's Short Novels by Herman Melville Pdf

This Norton Critical Edition presents three of Melville's most important short novels -- Bartleby, The Scrivener; Benito Cereno; and Billy Budd. The texts are accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" offers selections from works that influenced Melville's writing of these three short novles, including, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Transcendentalist" and Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels. Johannes Dietrich Bergmann, H. Bruce Franklin, and Robert M. Cover provide overviews of Melville's probable sources. An unusually rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-eight wide-ranging pieces that often contradict one another and that are sure to promote classroom discussion. Book jacket.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451530810

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Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Culture
ISBN : 0060830948

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Great Short Works of Herman Melville by Herman Melville Pdf

A complete collection of Melville's short works of fiction that includes The Encantadas, Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Aerie
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429959544

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000111981613

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The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

"With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele-" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.

Author : Corey Evan Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476676326

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Herman Melville by Corey Evan Thompson Pdf

This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.