The Complete Shorter Fiction

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Contains: [The Piazza Tales](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102742W/The_Piazza_Tales): The Piazza [Bartleby, the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W/Bartleby_the_Scrivener) Benito Cereno The lightning-rod man The encantadas, or enchanted isles The bell-tower Fragments from a writing desk Authentic anecdotes of "Old Zack" Hawthorne and his mosses 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 John Marr [Billy Budd](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102746W/Billy_Budd)

subjects: American Short Stories,  Manners and customs in fiction,  Manners and customs,  Fiction,  Young men,  Copyists,  classic literature,  Psychology,  Securities industry,  short stories,  Securities industry. literature,  classics,  Sailors,  Ship captains,  Executions and executioners,  Impressment,  Sea stories,  adult readers,  Study and teaching,  Historical Fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author)

People: Billy Budd,  Edward Fairfax Vere,  John Claggart,  Bartleby,  Turkey,  Nippers,  Ginger Nut,  John Jacob Astor,  Cicero,  Benito Cereno,  Jimmy Rose,  John Marr

Places: New York,  Wall Street

Times: 19th century