Collection of 22 stories:
The Town-Ho's Story
[Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener)
Cock-A-Doodle Doo
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
The Two Temples
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs
The Happy Failure
The Lightning-Rod Man
The Fiddler
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
The Bell-Tower
Benito Cereno
Jimmy Rose
I and My Chimney
The'Gees
The Apple-Tree Table or Original Spiritual Manifestations
The Piazza
The Marquis de Grandivn
Three "Jack Gentian Sketches"
John Marr
Daniel Orme
[Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd)
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel *Moby Dick* and novella Billy Budd, the latter of which was published posthumously. ([Source][1].)
[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville