Happy Failure

<p>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.</p><p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p>