Cover of Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)

Book 1997

Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics)

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Publisher
Everyman's Library Ltd
Language
English
Published
1997
  • American Short Stories
  • Manners and customs in fiction
  • Manners and customs
  • Fiction
  • Young men
  • Copyists
  • classic literature
  • Psychology

Contains:

The Piazza Tales:
The Piazza
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