![]() ![]() In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd,Sailor the controlled rage of Benito Cereno and the tantalizing. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories (BOK). This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. ![]() ![]() In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville's. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor the controlled rage of Benito Cereno and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories Paperback Septemby Herman Melville (Author) 4.1 out of 5 stars 187 ratings Part of: Signet Classics (1 books) Kindle 0.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 124.69 4 Used from 112.22 6 New from 120. ![]()
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