"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.
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."