AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: BARTLE BY THE SCRIVENER BY HERMAN MELVILLE

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AMERICAN SHORT STORIES: BARTLE BY THE SCRIVENER BY HERMAN MELVILLE

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). 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 or...