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I Would Prefer Not To: Essential Stories

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By (author): Herman Melville

In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears. A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A cynical lightning rod salesman plies his trade by exploiting fears in stormy weather. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. See more
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  • Dimensions: 120 x 165mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781782277460

About Herman Melville

Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832 and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839 he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846) Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews Melville abandoned fiction writing in 1857 turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.

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