A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in
a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition
Includes Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno and The Lightning-Rod
Man
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.
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.