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The Short Fiction of Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

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3 h 53 min · 14 parts

  1. Ch 1 - A Ship

    10:35

  2. Ch 2 - Aboard San Dominick

    17:41

  3. Ch 3 - Don Benito's Story

    9:10

  4. Ch 4 - The Blacks

    17:52

  5. Ch 5 - Questions

    18:52

  6. Ch 6 - The Boat Appears

    23:42

  7. Ch 7 - The Boat Arrives

    15:59

  8. Ch 8 - In the Cuddy

    27:11

  9. Ch 9 - Business

    6:28

  10. Ch 10 - Safe Harbour

    17:54

  11. Ch 11 - Into the Boat

    11:32

  12. Ch 12 - Pursuit

    8:44

  13. Ch 13 - A Deposition

    38:34

  14. Ch 14 - Conclusion

    9:03

The Short Fiction of Herman Melville (1856) is a public domain work.

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After the commercial failure of Moby-Dick and Pierre, Melville turned to shorter forms and produced some of the finest short fiction in American literature. This collection gathers the tales he wrote for the magazines of the 1850s, among them Bartleby, the Scrivener, the story of a Wall Street clerk who answers every request with "I would prefer not to"; Benito Cereno, a tense account of a slave revolt aboard a becalmed ship; and The Encantadas, his haunting sketches of the Galapagos. Quiet on the surface, these stories carry a deep unease about work, freedom, and the limits of human sympathy. They repay slow, careful reading.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American writer who drew heavily from his own experiences as a merchant sailor and whaler in the Pacific. He produced novels, short stories, and poetry that examined moral complexity and the sea, though he remained relatively obscure during his lifetime and saw renewed recognition only after his death.

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Pages
419
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