Tales, Poems, and Other WritingsThe first edition of Melville's tales and poems in fifty years and the only one currently in print, this edition presents Melville's full array of short works as they appeared in magazines, private printings and manuscript, along with a generous sampling of his most significant poetry (an unjustly neglected facet of his ouvre). Senior Melvillean John Bryant brings extensive scholarly experience to the task; along with such classics as Bartleby the Scrivener, it offers a host of material available nowhere else, including letters and a significant rediscovered short story, Under the Rose. |
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... Confidence - Man ( 1857 ) . Mentally exhausted , he embarked on a tour of the Mediterranean and the Holy Land financed by his father - in - law . The journey supplied Melville with numerous inspira- tions for future writing . Upon his ...
... Confidence - Man ( 1857 ) . Mentally exhausted , he embarked on a tour of the Mediterranean and the Holy Land financed by his father - in - law . The journey supplied Melville with numerous inspira- tions for future writing . Upon his ...
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... Confidence - Man ( 1857 ) , Melville pushed his strat- egy of ironic indirection in a third - person voice to its extreme . This dark comedy set on a Mississippi riverboat parades before us a series of con men and victims , and ...
... Confidence - Man ( 1857 ) , Melville pushed his strat- egy of ironic indirection in a third - person voice to its extreme . This dark comedy set on a Mississippi riverboat parades before us a series of con men and victims , and ...
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... Confidence - Man , the narrator is both detached and equivocal , leaving readers rudderless in a sea of entanglements that make the process of judgment seem futile . Melville did not live to put a final polish on the work , and the ...
... Confidence - Man , the narrator is both detached and equivocal , leaving readers rudderless in a sea of entanglements that make the process of judgment seem futile . Melville did not live to put a final polish on the work , and the ...
Contents
A WRITER IN PROCESS | xvii |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | li |
PART ONE STARTING | 3 |
Copyright | |
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