Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville. Bartleby, the scrivener: a story of Wall-Street—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