Herman Melville: Complete Poems Av Herman Melville

<b>A new selection of Melville''s darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition</b><br> <br><b>Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The...

''Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville''s style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue - an Irish bog without so much as a Jack o''the''lantern...

Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined. Mocked...

The text of The Confidence-Man reprinted here is again that of the first American edition (1857), slightly corrected.