Collected Stories 1-Herman Melville

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

After a hundred years of literary barrenness, Melville's haunted islands, demonic slave ships, misshapen houses, crumbling towers, rattling tables, eerie factories, sickly huts, and empty brick walls of the city may perhaps reflect not only our own personal fears, but also We are now in a position to read the truth of Melville himself. The persistent interest in Melville's narratives is nothing more than discouragement, a desire to know the truth, even if under the spell of his counterproductive energy... Melville intuitively wants to reach out on a broad plane; Even in his stories echo the vibrations and signs of cosmic interests...

John Updike

Herman Melville, one of the greatest names in American and world literature, is known for his novel Moby Dick (The White Whale). His texts in Collected Stories I provide terrific examples of the constant thirst for human reality...

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition