Melville's short fiction, 1853-1856

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Melville's short fiction, 1853-1856

William B. Dillingham

University of Georgia Press, c1977

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Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Unconscious duplicity: Bartleby, the scrivener
  • High-spirited revolt: Cock-a-doodle-doo
  • An hourglass run out: The Encantadas
  • Some sly enchanter's show: The two temples
  • Making sport of earnest: Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs
  • The talismanic secret: The happy failure and The fiddler
  • Grand irregular thunder: The lightning-rod man
  • Travelers in Lapland: The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
  • Cynic solitaire: The bell-tower
  • A dark similitude: Benito Cereno
  • The higher mathematics: I and my chimney
  • Wedded warmth and chill: Jimmy Rose
  • One spot of radiance: The piazza
  • Mystery as mystery: The apple-tree table

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