Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel potter : his fifty years of exile ; The Piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)

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Herman Melville's dark and brilliant late works contain some of his most powerful writing. After "Moby-Dick" he turned from the high seas to record his keen, bleak vision of life at home in America. "Pierre," "Israel Potter," and "The Confidence-Man," satirical dissections of moral breakdown and social hypocrisy, anticipate modernist fiction with their black humor and formal experimentation. With them here are "The Piazza Tales"--including "Bartelby the Scrivener," "The Encantadas," and "Benito Cereno"--and the haunting, posthumously published masterpiece, "Billy Budd, Sailor." Rounding out this third volume of Melville's complete prose in the Library of America are many pieces rarely collected, including magazine stories, comic sketches, and reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Parkman, and James Fenimore Cooper. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Herman Melville, 1819-1891

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

[13], 1478 s. ; 21 cm

Vydáno

[New York, NY] : Library of America, [c1994]

Vydání

8th print.

Edice

Library of America (Library of America)

Témata

Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891

americká próza > 19. stol.

americké romány

americké povídky

americké prózy

sebrané spisy

Popis jednotky

Chronologický přehled

Bibliografie

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ISBN

0-940450-24-0