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Author: Melville, Herman

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 30 September 2021 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Pushkin Collection’ series.

Paperback | 256 pages
121 x 166 x 21 | 232g

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.

A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A cynical lightning rod salesman plies his trade by exploiting fears in stormy weather. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader’s cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease.