{"product_id":"i-would-prefer-not-to-essential-stories","title":"I Would Prefer Not To: Essential Stories","description":"A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition\n\nIncludes \"Bartleby, the Scrivener\", \"Benito Cereno\" and \"The Lightning-Rod Man\"\n\nA lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease.\n\nIn these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1782277463\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.1782277463.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Melville, Herman\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594505605317,"sku":"LFV.1782277463.VG","price":9.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/1782277463-0.jpg?v=1785085352","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/i-would-prefer-not-to-essential-stories","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}