The Happy Failure: Stories

"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life." - D.H. Lawrence.Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville.Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall-Street --Cock-a-doodle-doo! or The crowing of the noble cock Beneventano --The two temples --The happy failure: a story of the River Hudson --The lightning-rod man --The fiddler --The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids --I and my chimney --The piazza --Daniel Orme --