The Happy Failure

The Happy Failure

By Herman Melville

Pages

245

Rating

3.56

Year

1924

FictionClassicsShort Stories

Description

Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville.

Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall-Street --
Cock-a-doodle-doo! or The crowing of the noble cock Beneventano --
The two temples --
The happy failure: a story of the River Hudson --
The lightning-rod man --
The fiddler --
The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids --
I and my chimney --
The piazza --
Daniel Orme --
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