The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches
By Herman Melville
Length6h 46m
About this audiobook
The various prose sketches here reprinted were first published by Melville, some in Harper's and some in Putnam's magazines, during the years from 1850 to 1856. "Hawthorne and His Mosses," the only piece of criticism in this collection, is particularly interesting viewed in the light of Melville's friendship with Hawthorne while they were neighbors at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The other sketches cover a variety of homely subjects treated by Melville with a fresh humor, richly phrased and curiously personal. Longer and in some ways more ambitious prose pieces written about this same time have been collected under the title of "Piazza Tales," but none of the sketches which follow have heretofore been gathered into a book. This has now been done not only to answer a growing demand for accessible reprints of Melville's work but also in response to the literary appeal of the sketches themselves. The author's phraseology and punctuation have, of course, been, followed exactly.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 46 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE APPLE-TREE TABLE
2HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES
3JIMMY ROSE
4I AND MY CHIMNEY
5THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS
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6COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!
7THE FIDDLER
8POOR MAN'S PUDDING AND RICH MAN'S CRUMBS
9THE HAPPY FAILURE
10THE 'GEES
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