I Would Prefer Not to

<b>A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition</b> <p/><b>Includes Bartleby the Scrivener Benito Cereno and The Lightning-Rod Man</b> <p/>A lawyer hires a new copyist only to be met with stubborn confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. <p/>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.