Bartleby the Scrivener and The Confidence Man (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) / Barnes & Noble Digital Library (ePub)
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Although most people do not think of Herman Melville as a particularly funny writer, his "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and The Confidence Man have kept readers...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
"Bartleby" is a simultaneously accurate and absurd depiction of life in a Wall Street office in the middle of the nineteenth century. It is the gentle comedy of a boss' helpless inability to control a stubborn employee, who when asked to do ordinary chores around the office simply responds, "I prefer not to."
In The Confidence Man, Melville skewers the hypocrisies and inadequacies of America and Western civilization through ridicule. His biting satire leaves many readers smirking until the moment when they recognize someone remarkably like themselves as the next target in the con man's sights.
Literary success soon faded; his complexity increasingly alienated readers. After a visit to the Holy Land in January 1857, he turned from writing prose fiction to poetry. In 1863, during the Civil War, he moved back to New York City, where from 1866-1885 he was a deputy inspector in the Custom House, and where, in 1891, he died. A draft of a final prose work, Billy Budd, Sailor, was left unfinished and uncollated, packed tidily away by his widow, where it remained until its rediscovery and publication in 1924.
Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).
- Autor: Herman Melville
- Altersempfehlung: Bis 99 Jahre
- 2012, 368 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Barnes & Noble
- ISBN-10: 1411467159
- ISBN-13: 9781411467156
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.03.2012
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- Größe: 0.42 MB
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