The Complete Shorter Fiction

By Herman Melville

Subjects: short stories, Historical Fiction, Copyists, Ship captains, Manners and customs, classic literature, Executions and executioners, Study and teaching, Securities industry, Manners and customs in fiction, classics, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Securities industry. literature, Impressment, American Short Stories, Sea stories, adult readers, Psychology, Young men, Sailors

Description: Contains: [The Piazza Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102742W/The_Piazza_Tales): The Piazza [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Benito Cereno The lightning-rod man The encantadas, or enchanted isles The bell-tower Fragments from a writing desk Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack" Hawthorne and his mosses The happy failure The fiddler Cock-a-doodle-doo! Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs The two temples The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of maids Jimmy Rose The 'gees I and my chimney The apple-tree table John Marr [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd)