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Pierre, or, The ambiguities ; Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative) / Herman Melville.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS2382 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Series:
- Library of America
- Library of America.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 1984
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adventure stories, American.
- Sea stories, American.
- Authors--Fiction.
- Men--Fiction.
- Autobiographical novels.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Genre:
- Adventure stories, American.
- Biographical fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Sea stories.
- Allegory (Literature)
- Physical Description:
- 1478 pages ; 21 cm.
- Other Title:
- Pierre.
- Israel Potter.
- Piazza tales.
- Confidence-man.
- Billy Budd, sailor.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, [1984]
- Summary:
- The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
- Contents:
- Pierre or, The Ambiquities
- Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile
- The Piazza tales
- The confidence-man, his masquerade
- Uncollected prose
- ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
- Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack"
- Mr Parkman's Tour
- Cooper's new novel
- A thought on book-binding
- Hawthorne and his mosses
- TALES
- Fragments from a writing desk
- 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
- Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of the estate of William Brodsky.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Selections. 1984. Pierre, or, the ambiguities.
- ISBN:
- 0940450240 :
- OCLC:
- 10777772
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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