Pierre, or, The ambiguities Israel Potter : his fifty years of exile ; The piazza tales ; The confidence-man : his masquerade ; Uncollected prose ; Billy Budd, sailor : (an inside narrative)
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- ISBN: 9780940450240
- ISBN: 0940450240
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1478 pages ; 21 cm. - Publisher: New York : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press, ©1984.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pierre or, The Ambiquities -- Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile -- The Piazza tales -- The confidence-man, his masquerade -- Uncollected prose -- ARTICLES AND REVIEWS -- Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack" -- Mr Parkman's Tour -- Cooper's new novel -- A thought on book-binding -- Hawthorne and his mosses -- TALES -- Fragments from a writing desk -- The happy failure -- The fiddler -- Cock-a-doodle-doo! -- Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs -- The two temples -- The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids -- Jimmy Rose -- The 'Gees -- I and my chimney -- The apple-tree table -- Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative). |
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