{"product_id":"9781782277460-i-would-prefer-not-to-essential-stories","title":"I Would Prefer Not To Essential Stories","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes \" Bartleby the Scrivener\" \" Benito Cereno\" and \" The Lightning - Rod Man\" A lawyer hires a new copyist only to be met with stubborn confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: I Would Prefer Not To Essential Stories\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Melville Herman\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Pushkin Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781782277460\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 256 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 10\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Pushkin Collection\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Short Stories","brand":"Melville Herman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49623331799345,"sku":"IN-G-9781782277460","price":24.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781782277460-i-would-prefer-not-to-essential-stories","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}