Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

368 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 2016 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-14-310760-6
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Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. 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. 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. 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.

This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison …

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Subjects

  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)