Bartleby The Scrivener - Couverture souple

Herman Melville

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1617206881 ISBN 13 : 9781617206887

Editeur : Parlux, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Melville Herman

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period best known for Typee (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His work was almost forgotten during his last thirty years. His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style: the vocabulary is rich and original, a strong sense of rhythm infuses the elaborate sentences, the imagery is often mystical or ironic, and the abundance of allusion extends to scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appeared in November 1853, with the conclusion published in December 1853. It was reprinted in Melville's The Piazza Tales in 1856 with minor textual alterations. The work is said to have been inspired, in part, by Melville's reading of Emerson, and some have pointed to specific parallels to Emerson's essay, "The Transcendentalist." The story has been adapted twice: once in 1970, starring Paul Scofield, and again in 2001, starring Crispin Glover.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Parlux
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1617206881
• ISBN 13: 9781617206887
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 39