The Happy Failure

“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.”