By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Of Herman Melville’s shorter works, ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ has remained the most popular and widely studied. Critics have disagreed over the story’s meaning, with this tale of one man who repeatedly asserts that he ‘would prefer not to’ carry out the orders of his […]
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Five Fascinating Facts about Herman Melville
Five fun and interesting facts about Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick 1. Much of his mature work was a flop during his lifetime. Much of Melville’s later work – the majority of which is now his most highly regarded fiction – was neither critically nor commercially successful when it was first […]