{"product_id":"complete-shorter-fiction-everymans-library-9780375400681","title":"Complete Shorter Fiction (Everyman's Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive  tectonic passions of Moby-Dick. In a story like \"Bartleby  the Scrivener\" -- one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language -- he displayed an unflinching precision and insight and empathy in his depiction of the drastically alienated inner life of the title character. In \"Benito Cereno \" he addressed the great racial dilemmas of the nineteenth century with a profound  almost surreal imaginative clarity. And in Billy  Budd  Sailor  the masterpiece of his last years  he fused the knowledge and craft gained from a lifetimes magnificent work into a pure  stark  flawlessly composed tale of innocence betrayed and destroyed. Melville is justly honored for the epic sweep of his mind  but his lyricism  his skill in rendering the minute  the particular  the local  was equally sublime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960381530165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375400680","price":46.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375400681.jpg?v=1788285584","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/complete-shorter-fiction-everymans-library-9780375400681","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}