{"product_id":"the-happy-failure-stories-9780061773754","title":"The Happy Failure: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Melville at his best invariably wrote from a sort of dream self, so that events which he relates as actual fact have indeed a far deeper reference to his own soul, his own inner life.\" - D.H. Lawrence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here are ten stories that represent some of the best short work of American master Herman Melville, including \"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street,\" \"The Happy Failure,\" and \"The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alongside THE HAPPY FAILURE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the \"Summer of the Short Story.\" A story from Alex Burrett's forthcoming collection, MY GOAT ATE ITS OWN LEGS, will be printed at the back of this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelville, Herman:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eHerman Melville (1819-1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet who received wide acclaim for his earliest novels, such as \u003cem\u003eTypee\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRedburn\u003c\/em\u003e, but fell into relative obscurity by the end of his life. Today, Melville is hailed as one of the definitive masters of world literature for novels including \u003cem\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as for enduringly popular short stories such as \u003cem\u003eBartleby\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Scrivener\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Bell-Tower\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844000747794,"sku":"9780061773754","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd8663e2-864b-47ca-9b7c-5791d5b3d04f.jpg?v=1737306378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-happy-failure-stories-9780061773754","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}