Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. 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. Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Melville, Herman and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. 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. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales.Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction.

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 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. An edition of Works (Billy Budd / Piazza Tales) (1961) Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville.

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction.

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