GREAT SHORT WORKS OF HERMAN MELVILLE

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.