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Presented together in this collection are two stories by Herman Melville: a satire on spiritualism that examines the conflicting impressions of the members of a family of a bug-infested table and a reflection on the contrast between the pleasant life of rich bachelors and the alienation of enslaved young women. In The Apple-Tree Table, the narrator brings down a table and book of witchcraft stories he finds in the garret of his old house, long believed to be haunted. Strange sounds come from the table before 150-year-old bugs begin to emerge from it, inspiring daughter Julia to believe the…mehr

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Presented together in this collection are two stories by Herman Melville: a satire on spiritualism that examines the conflicting impressions of the members of a family of a bug-infested table and a reflection on the contrast between the pleasant life of rich bachelors and the alienation of enslaved young women. In The Apple-Tree Table, the narrator brings down a table and book of witchcraft stories he finds in the garret of his old house, long believed to be haunted. Strange sounds come from the table before 150-year-old bugs begin to emerge from it, inspiring daughter Julia to believe the creatures are a symbol of the resurrection. The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids points out the outrageous differences between two groups by juxtaposing the lavish dinner of a group of young, single male lawyers, scholars, and writers in London in the first part with a visit to a paper factory in a nearly inaccessible mountain village where young women toil under subhuman conditions in the second. Presentados juntos en esta recopilacion hay dos cuentos de Herman Melville: una satira del espiritismo que examina las opiniones divididas de los miembros de una familia sobre una mesa infestada de insectos y una reflexion sobre el contraste entre la vida placentera de los ricos solteros y la alienacion de las jovenes esclavizadas. En La mesa de madera de manzano, el narrador baja del desvan de su casa vieja considerada desde hace tiempo encantada una mesa y un libro de brujeria. La mesa emite un extrano crujido antes de que insectos de 150 anos emanen de ella, inspirando a la hija Julia a creer que las criaturas son un simbolo de la resurreccion. El Paraiso de los solteros y el Tartaro de las doncellas muestra las inauditas diferencias entre dos grupos, yuxtaponiendo una cena pantagruelica con abogados, eruditos y escritores solteros en Londres en la primera parte con una visita a una fabrica de papel en una aldea de montana casi inaccesible en la que trabajan mujeres jovenes en condiciones infrahumanas en la segunda."
Autorenporträt
Herman Melville was a novelist, short story writer, and poet. He is the author of Billy Budd, I and My Chimney, Moby Dick, and Poor Man s Pudding and Rich Man s Crumbs, among other works."