• Fragmentos desde un escritorio
• Anécdotas auténticas del "viejo Zack"
• ¡Quiquiriquí!
• El fracaso feliz
• El violinista
• El pudín del pobre y las migajas del rico
• Los dos templos
• El paraíso de los solteros y el tártaro de las doncellas
• El vendedor de pararrayos
• El campanario
• La veranda
• Los 'gueses
• Yo y mi chimenea
• La mesa de mi manzano
• Jimmy Rose
• John Marr
• El marqués de Grandvin
• Tres retratos de Jack Gentian
• Daniel Orme.

• Foreword by Margaret Drabble-- The Enchanted Isles-- Notes-- Biographical note.
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Originally penned as a travelogue, Melville's writings form a series of evocative sketches of each of these equatorial islands. Recounting their myths and stories of old, he conjures up the spirit of each in astonishing detail. Read together they create a timeless classic, perfectly capturing the islands' eternal charm and mystery.
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• Rock Rodondo : sketch third of "The Encantadas"
• A Pisgah view from the rock : sketch fourth of "The Encantadas."

• The piazza.--Bartleby.--Benito Cereno.--The lightning-rod man.--The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles.--The bell-tower.

• v. 1. Jerusalem. The wilderness.--
• v. 2. Mar Saba. Bethlehem.

The text here is based on Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford's 1967 edition, footnoted to include biographical discoveries. Reviews, letters by Melville and belated praise is collected, and a wealth of new biographical material has been added, while new research is highlighted. Parker also explores what writing Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family.
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• Appendix A: The Art of the Short Story and the Romance
• 1. Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and his Mosses" (1850)
• 2. Edgar Allan Poe, Rev. of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, Graham's,
• 1842
• 3. Rev. of The Piazza Tales in United States Democratic Review, September
• 1856
• 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Appendix B: Race, Slavery and Inequality
• 1. Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World, Together With a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (1817)
• 2. Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1852)
• 3. George Lippard, New York, Its Upper Ten and Lower Million (1854)
• 4. John Quincy Adams, The United States v. The Amistad (1841)
• 5. The slave deck of the bark ""Wildfire, "" brought into Key West on April 30,
• 1860 Appendix C: Allusions to Poetry and the Bible
• 1. "Mariana, " by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1830)
• 2. Matthew 5:38-48, The Bible, King James Version
• 3. Job 3:1-26, The Bible, King James Version
• 4. Judges 4:4-22, The Bible, King James Version Appendix D: Science and Philosophy
• 1. Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. From
• 1832 to
• 1836 [October 1835] (1840)
• 2. Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will (1754),
• Section V, Concerning the Notion of Liberty, and of Moral Agency
• 3. Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated (1777).
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Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in hislifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cerenoalong with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands that make up TheEncantadas and three more short stories: The Piazza, The Bell-Tower, and The Lightning-Rod Man. This edition places these stories in the context of nineteenth-century debates over slavery, free willand determinism, science and technology, and the nature and value of literary artistry. The stories in ThePiazza Tales demonstrate the global range of Melville's cultural and aesthetic concerns, as Melville sethis stories in locales ranging from rural western Massachusetts and Wall Street in the United States to thePacific coast of South America and southern Europe. This edition is especially concerned with Melville's engagement with both political questions related toslavery and imperialism and aesthetic questions germane to the short story tradition as developed by hisnear contemporaries Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Harper & Brothers 1852 first edition of Pierre is accompanied by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein's introduction, note on the text and annotations. Contextual and source materials, including letters and responses, provide readers with a sense of Pierre's time and place. Seven critical essays on Pierre's major themes are also included.
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• The piazza tales. The piazza ; Bartleby, the scrivener ; Benito Cereno ; The lightning-rod man ; The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles ; The bell-tower
• The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
• Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative).

Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville's. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales.
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"Is it the intention of law-makers that good men shall be hung ever?" asked Henry David Thoreau. The question has never been academic, but in 1924, when Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor was published posthumously, we understood better than ever why. An uneasy if beautiful account of the human cost of realpolitik, Billy Budd, Sailor asks how far we should go to protext the status quo. When does the reaction to a security crisis become reactionary? In the novella John Claggart, master-at-arms of a British warship, alleges a sailor is talking mutiny. The sailor, Billy, isn't just innocent of the charge; he's a true innocent. Yet when confronted by his accuser, Billy reacts impulsively, striking Claggart. The resulting trial shows the horrors that can follow from a civilized society following its own laws. This Broadview Edition is based on the authoritative Hayford-Sealts copy-text of Billy Budd. The introduction distils the long and complex critical conversation about the work since its publication, and the historical appendices feature materials on mutiny, capital and corporal punishment, philosophical pessimism, sexuality, and the rule of law.
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