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Richard Harter Fogles earlier work, Hawthornes Fiction: The Light and the Dark, has become a standard resource for both scholars and general readers who wish to gain an understanding of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne- a complex and challenging literary figure.

This book, designed as a companion volume, concentrates upon Hawthornes use of imagery, specifically sun imagery, with its contrasting images of moonlight, artificial light, shadow, and blackness, to unify his narratives and illuminate his characters. In tracing Hawthornes imagic pattern through his major fiction works and...

Although the shadow of the great white whale, Moby Dick, looms perpetually large in nineteenth-century literature, Herman Melvilles shorter tales have often been slighted by critics and readers alike. Those lesser shapes of the San Dominick, Bannadonnas bell tower, and the great Rock Rodondo of the Enchanted Islands have been seen only dimly through mists of neglect.

Richard Harter Fogle provides an accurate and rounded discussion of these relatively neglected Melville stories. His approach is broadly literary-expounding Melvilles ideas as they exist in the context of the stories...