Selected Writings of Herman Melville

By Herman Melville

Subjects: Historical Fiction, literature, American Sea stories, Copyists, Ship captains, classic literature, Executions and executioners, Securities industry, Excerpts, classics, open_syllabus_project, Fiction, Social life and customs, Impressment, Sea stories, Operas, Psychology, Young men, Sailors

Description: Contains: [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Encantadas or enchanted isles -- Isles at large -- Two side to a tortoise -- Rock Rodondo --Pisgah view from the rock -- Frigate, and ship flyaway -- Barrington isle and the buccaneers -- Charles's isle and the dog-king -- Norfolk isle and the Chola widow -- Hood's isle and the Hermit Oberlus -- Runaways, castaways, solitaries, grave-stones, etc -- Crowing of the Nobel Cock Beneventano -- Two temples -- Temple first -- Temple second - Poor man's pudding- Rich man's crumbs -- Paradise of bachelors -- Tartarus of maids -- Lightning-rod man -- Happy failure: a story of the river Hudson -- Fiddler -- Jimmy Rose -- Benito Cereno -- Bell-tower -- I and my chimney -- Apple-tree table or original spiritual manifestations -- Piazza -- Typee -- Story of Toby -- [Billy Budd, Foretopman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd)