About this title: Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practice by literature's greatest writers. In the ART OF THE NOVELLA series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time. Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world--even those daunted by "Moby-Dick"--BARTLEBY THE SCRIVENER is simply one of the most absorbing and moving novellas ever. ...
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Description: New. 0760777640 NEW & Unread Book with out Remainder Marked-May Have Slight Handling Wear From Bookstore Shelf-Instock For Immediate Shipping. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2004-06-30
ISBN-13:9781419109003ISBN:1419109006
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
Date Published: 1996
Description: Very Good. As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, minor corner bumps, small crescent shaped crease to righ edge of front cover, and other light shopwear. Collects 3 of Melvilles best short works. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: NY: Book-of-the-Month Club.
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. [1997]. BOMC issue. "These three short works represent the last flowering of Herman Melville's genius". 274[1] pages. Cloth and boards (hardcover). Light shelf wear. A nice copy of this BOMC issue... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: half morocco
Publisher: G. P. Putnam & Co., New York
Date Published: 1853
Description: Two volumes bound in contemporary half leather and marbled boards covering the entire year of 1853. Both volumes are bound in half morocco and boards with morocco corners, with the first volume in brown morocco and marbled boards and the second volume in black morocco and black boards. Both are in Very Good condition with expected rubbing to the leather and the covers tight. Contents have only light, sporadic foxing. A small section of one page in the second volume has been excised affecting ... read more
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