Happy Failure : Stories, Paperback by Melville, Herman, Brand New, Free shipp...

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Language: English Number of Pages: 256 Pages Author: Herman. Melville height: 0.6 in Item Length: 7.1 in width: 5 in Publisher: HarperCollins Format: Trade Paperback Publication Year: 2009 Item Weight: 7.1 Oz ISBN: 9780061773754 Item Height: 0.6 in Topic: Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Humorous / General Book Title: Happy Failure : Stories Item Width: 5 in Genre: Fiction

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Happy Failure : Stories, Paperback by Melville, Herman, Brand New, Free shipp.... Happy Failure : Stories, Paperback by Melville, Herman, ISBN 0061773751, ISBN-13 9780061773754, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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." - . Lawrence. 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." 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.