The Happy Failure
Harper Collins
Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul his own inner life D H Lawrence Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville including Bartleby the Scrivener A Story of Wall Street The Happy Failure and The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids
