The Happy Failure : A Story of the River Hudson, a Short Story

Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 9, 2009). "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." Alongside THE HAPPY FAILURE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Alex Burrett's forthcoming collection, MY GOAT ATE ITS OWN LEGS, will be printed at the back of this volume Contains: [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) 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 Title Page......Page 2 Contents......Page 4 Begin Reading......Page 6 About the Author......Page 17 Credits......Page 18 Copyright Notice......Page 19 About the Publisher......Page 20