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. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Main Author

Herman Melville, 1819-1891

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

[13], 1478 s. ; 21 cm

Published

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

Edition

8th print.

Series

Library of America (Library of America)

Subjects

Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891

americká próza > 19. stol.

americké romány

americké povídky

americké prózy

sebrané spisy

Item Description

Chronologický přehled

Bibliography

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ISBN

0-940450-24-0