I Would Prefer Not to - (Essential Stories) by Herman Melville (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition</b> <p/><b>Includes Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno and The Lightning-Rod Man</b></b> <p/>A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Melville instinctively aspired to the grandest scale, and even in his shorter works offers vast inklings and the resonance of cosmic concerns. <b>-- John Updike</b> <p/>Melville seems to promise the very stuff of existence: time, space, air. We don't so much read him as inhale him. <b>-- Geoffrey O'Brien, <i>Village Voice</i></b> <p/>There are very few stories that, on re-reading after re-reading, seem to become impossibly more perfect, but Herman Melville's eerie, aching story 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' is one such. <b>-- Stuart Kelly, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Typee</i> (1846), <i>Omoo</i> (1847) and his great masterpiece, <i>Moby-Dick </i>(1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville largely abandoned fiction writing after 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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