{"product_id":"the-happy-failure-stories-9780061773754","title":"The Happy Failure: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Alongside THE HAPPY FAILURE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Oscar Wilde to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the \"Summer of the Short Story.\" A story from Alex Burrett's forthcoming collection, MY GOAT ATE ITS OWN LEGS, will be printed at the back of this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061773754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.08h x 5.04w x 0.68d","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44625747083445,"sku":"9780061773754","price":8.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2d82bee2-4859-498a-94be-34c8ea2bec0f.jpg?v=1725978105","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-happy-failure-stories-9780061773754","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}