I Would Prefer Not To Av Herman Melville

<b>A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition</b><br> <br><b>Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man"</b><br><br>A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. <br><br>In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.