Publisher's Synopsis
Herman Melville wrote short stories for two of the 19th-century's leading monthly magazines, Harper's and Putnam's. This collection features 14 selections from those magazines, including "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," a dramatic story based on his real-life experiences on the Galapagos Islands, plus "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," "The Bell-Tower," more.
