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.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length6 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE APPLE-TREE TABLE
6COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!
2HAWTHORNE AND HIS MOSSES
7THE FIDDLER
3JIMMY ROSE
8POOR MAN'S PUDDING AND RICH MAN'S CRUMBS
4I AND MY CHIMNEY
9THE HAPPY FAILURE
5THE PARADISE OF BACHELORS AND THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS
10THE 'GEES
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