{"product_id":"great-short-works-of-herman-melville-9780060586546","title":"Great Short Works of Herman Melville","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilly 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.01h x 5.33w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060586546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelville, Herman:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who received wide acclaim for his earliest novels, such as \u003cem\u003eTypee\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRedburn\u003c\/em\u003e, but fell into relative obscurity by the end of his life. Today, Melville is hailed as one of the definitive masters of world literature for novels including \u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as for enduringly popular short stories such as \u003cem\u003eBartleby\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Scrivener\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Bell-Tower\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43099466334323,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_db59bfd7-eff4-4a0f-b7c2-5d744d1b1d28.jpg?v=1748700316","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/great-short-works-of-herman-melville-9780060586546","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}