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Billy Budd and other tales /

Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave...

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Main Authors: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Group Author: Markels, Julian; Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938
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Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Adventure stories, American
Sea stories, American
Executions and executioners > Fiction
Ship captains > Fiction
Impressment > Fiction
Sailors > Fiction
Short stories
Executions and executioners
Impressment
Sailors
Ship captains
Fiction
Summary: Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick".
Item Description: "This edition of Billy Budd is based on a text edited by Frederic Barron Freeman and corrected by Elizabeth Treeman".
Carrier Form: xiii, 369 p. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-369).
ISBN: 9780451530813 :
0451530810
Index Number: PS2384
CLC: I712.45
Call Number: I712.45/M531-1
Contents: Billy Budd -- Piazza -- Bartleby -- Benito Cereno -- Lightning-rod man -- Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles -- Bell-tower -- Town-ho's story from Moby Dick.

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