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
Author
There is more than one author with this name Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously only a few years later. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby Dick—largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public—was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
