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Publisher: Perennial / HarperCollins
Release Date: March 2, 2004
ISBN: 0060586540
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Format Reviewed: Paperback
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Genre: Fiction / Classics
Reviewed: 2004
Reviewer: Carisa Weeaks
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville
By Herman Melville

      Everybody knows who (or should I say what) the infamous Moby Dick is. Herman Melville was the author of that classic epic, but not many people know that Melville wrote many other stories that match and even go beyond Ishmael's story of his hunt of a gigantic white whale. That is why it was a great idea for Perennial Classics to release an anthology of Melville's greatest short stories.

    From "Bartleby, the Scrivener" to "The Encantadas", these stories are what pushed Melville into the lime-light along with his famous tale of a beautiful, elusive white whale. I am majoring in English and have always had a great admiration for Melville and his colleagues (like Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Scarlet Letter"), and was ecstatic when I was handed this book of his short stories to review. I recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of the great American writers of our time. His writing has been an inspiration to some of America's greatest writers and will remain an inspiration for all the greats to come.