Herman Melville: I Would Prefer Not To

Cover: 9781782277460 | I Would Prefer Not To | Essential Stories | Herman Melville | Buch

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A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.

Über den Autor

Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville largely abandoned fiction writing after 1857, turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Pushkin Press
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781782277460
ISBN-10:	1782277463
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Melville, Herman
Hersteller:	Pushkin Press IWUK Pushkin Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	161 x 117 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Herman Melville
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.01.2022
Gewicht:	0,228 kg