{"product_id":"the-happy-failure-herman-melville-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0061773751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061773754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.08h x 5.04w x 0.68d","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946141188351,"sku":"9780061773754","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b5ce87cd-a683-405c-94bd-f6d7e42f11a9.jpg?v=1681511738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-happy-failure-herman-melville-9780061773754","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}