The Short Stories of Herman Melville
The Short Stories of Herman Melville
By: Herman Melville
This collection of eleven major short stories includes the six published in The Piazza Tales in 1856 and five other uncollected stories published in magazines. The best known of these stories is “Bartleby the Scrivner,” but the other ten offer equally fascinating accounts of human frailty and moral dilemmas in the face of larger (often man-made) forces beyond one’s control.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-1891) spent five years on sailing ships as a seaman and whaler, experiences that provided the material for most of his writings, including Moby Dick (1851). An often playful irony, an outrage at social injustice, and a sense of man’s inability to control the forces that shape his destiny run through all his works, from his first South Sea adventure Typee through the final drama of Billy Budd.
