I and My Chimney
Author: first_name: Herman
last_name: Melville
Language: English
Year: 1856

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.

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