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Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville: Introduction by John Updike History_Gift_Guide Drew Daywalt’s laugh-out-loud textHerman Melville (1819 91) brought as much genius to the smaller scale literary forms as he did to the full blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic passions of Moby Dick. In a story like "Bartleby, the Scrivener" one of the very few perfect representatives of the form in the English language he