Pushkin Collection: I Would Prefer Not To

Essential Stories

Pushkin Collection: I Would Prefer Not To
Herman Melville
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Paperback
h165 x 120mm - 256pg
30 Sep 2021 UK
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9781782277460
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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.

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Herman Melville was born to a merchant family in New York City in 1819. His father died suddenly in 1832, and Melville took jobs as a bank clerk, a farmhand and a teacher to make ends meet. In 1839, he embarked on the first in a series of sea voyages that would provide him with inspiration for his novels Typee (1846), Omoo (1847) and his great masterpiece, Moby-Dick (1851). Following poor sales and hostile reviews, Melville abandoned fiction writing in 1857, turning to poetry and a career as a customs inspector on the New York docks. He died in relative obscurity in 1891.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781782277460
Published: 30 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 165mm
Width: 120mm
Pages: 256

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