{"product_id":"9780061921353","title":"The Happy Failure (The Title Story from The Happy Failure)","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","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076715823344,"sku":"9780061921353","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061921353_p0.jpg?v=1763623370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061921353","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}