Herman Melville wrote short stories for two of the 19th-century's leading monthly magazines, Harper's and Putnam's. This collection features 14 selections from those magazines, including "The Encant
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!'It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recrui
If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summ
