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The Happy Failure: Stories

✍️ Herman Melville
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🏛 Harper Perennial 📅 2009 🌐 English 📔 Paperback 📐 Book ISBN: 9780061773754

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Here are 10 stories that represent some of the best short work by American master Melville, including Bartleby, the Scrivener, The Happy Failure, and The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids.

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