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The Short Fiction of Herman Melville

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Ch 1 - A Ship
10:35
Ch 2 - Aboard San Dominick
17:41
Ch 3 - Don Benito's Story
9:10
Ch 4 - The Blacks
17:52
Ch 5 - Questions
18:52
Ch 6 - The Boat Appears
23:42
Ch 7 - The Boat Arrives
15:59
Ch 8 - In the Cuddy
27:11
Ch 9 - Business
6:28
Ch 10 - Safe Harbour
17:54
Ch 11 - Into the Boat
11:32
Ch 12 - Pursuit
8:44
Ch 13 - A Deposition
38:34
Ch 14 - Conclusion
9:03

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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. Offered here as free PDF and EPUB editions.

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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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