I and My Chimney
By Herman Melville · Running time 02:07:50 · Literary Fiction
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Herman Melville (1819–1891) is best known for his epic novel Moby Dick (1851), as well as the short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) and the novella Billy Budd, Sailor (pub. posthumously, 1924). “I and My Chimney” is a short story originally published in March 1856, in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art. The chimney in the story is based (at least physically) on the central chimney in Arrowhead, the Melville family home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The story has been analyzed from many perspectives, including as an autobiographical episode, a meditation on
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