Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories
by Herman Melville and Harold Beaver
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The tales in this selection of Melville's shorter fiction are products of the strange and complex imagination that produced Moby-Dick. Written in prose nouveau riche in its verbal splendour, antiquarian in its delight, bible-echoed, allusive, elaborate', they have the same compelling and mysterious power, defying ultimate interpretation. The selection includes Bartleby, The Encantadas, Benito Cereno (recently dramatized by Robert Lowell) and one of Melville's supreme masterpieces, Billy Budd, Sailor. Harold Beaver's introduction and notes will aid the reader's understanding and enjoyment of one of the most allusive and book-haunted of all writers, 'now recognized as a giant among American men of letters', equal in his own sphere to the greatest of this European contemporaries.
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
1989 August, Penguin USA
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Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories
1985, Penguin Books
Paperback
in English
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0140430296 9780140430295
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Contains:
Bartleby.--
Cock-a-doodle-doo!--
The Encantades.--
The bell-tower.--
Benito Cereno.--
John Marr.--
Billy Budd, sailor.--
Daniel Orme
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