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A selection of dark and enthralling stories by Herman Melville.
A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with confounding resistance. A cynical lightning-rod salesman plies his trade by exploiting fears in stormy weather. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader’s cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories about the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Herman Melville’s darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.
Life among the Ledgers
I am rather fond of the crowd that Dante meets at the very start of his journey into Hell with Virgil. They are all rushing around moaning and shrieking on the edge of the River Acheron, hoping that...
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