The cover page is adapted from A Rooster with Hens and Chicks, a painting completed in 1855 by Albertus Verhoesen. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Short Fiction
Capítulos (18)
- Bartleby 0:00
- Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! 1:39:48
- The Encantadas 2:40:37
- Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs 5:04:26
- The Happy Failure 5:42:59
- The Lightning-Rod Man 6:02:33
- The Fiddler 6:20:52
- The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids 6:37:33
- The Bell-Tower 7:37:05
- Benito Cereno 8:17:25
- Jimmy Rose 11:58:52
- The ’Gees 12:27:47
- I and My Chimney 12:45:00
- The Apple-Tree Table 14:03:31
- The Piazza 15:00:16
- Billy Budd, Foretopman 15:40:20
- Daniel Orme 19:09:07
- The Two Temples 19:21:40
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Melville’s pen ranges far and wide in this collection of his short stories and novellas, with subjects including a faraway mountain lodge, a magnificent rooster, a haunted table, and of course the inimitable scrivener Bartleby, whose tale is now viewed as one of the great English short stories. While his earlier novels had been well received, by this point in his career his star had waned, and it was only in the early twentieth century that his work, including these short stories, started to get the recognition it still enjoys today.
This volume collects Melville’s short stories verified in the order they were originally published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly Magazine (along with “The Piazza” which was written for the collection The Piazza Tales). It also includes three stories (notably “Billy Budd, Foretopman”) that were edited and printed posthumously by Raymond Weaver from Melville’s original manuscripts. The racism displayed in “Benito Cereno” against the African slaves is somewhat shocking to modern readers given our greater understanding of their story, but was common in the mid-nineteenth century.