The Happy Failure: Stories

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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 --The Beast of Beddegelert by Alex Burett