Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. In this edition are also eight shorter tales, reprinted from the most authoritative recent editions and are supplemented by a penetrating introduction and full notes.
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Robert Milder is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is editor of Critical Essays on Melville's `Billy Budd, Sailor' and the author of Reimagining Thoreau.
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This collection offers an excellent taste of Melville's shorter works, including his brilliant, posthumously-published novella "Billy Budd, Sailor", "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and "Benito Cereno." As I wrote in my review of "Moby-Dick", at the risk of sounding cheesy, Melville was a master with words. I am constantly amazed at how in-depth and with such detail, and often humorously, he describes people, places, things, and states of mind.So, if you have read "Moby-Dick" and are hungry for more, this volume proves a delightful next course. But, if you have contemplated "Moby-Dick" but are not sure if you are ready to dig in quite yet, this will prove a delicious appetizer. Either way, taste and see.
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Captain Delano, Don Benito, Captain Vere, Billy Budd, San Dominick, Don Alexandro, Captain Amasa Delano, Enchanted Isles, Handsome Sailor, Benito Cereno, Ginger Nut, Cape Horn, Paradise of Bachelors, Don Amasa, Don Joaquin, Jemmy Legs, Devil's Dungeon, Signor Beneventano, Barrington Isle, Great Mutiny, Hermenegildo Gandix, Hood's Isle, Baby Budd, Bachelor's Delight, Buenos Ayres New!
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Captain Delano, Don Benito, Captain Vere, Billy Budd, San Dominick, Don Alexandro, Captain Amasa Delano, Enchanted Isles, Handsome Sailor, Benito Cereno, Ginger Nut, Cape Horn, Paradise of Bachelors, Don Amasa, Don Joaquin, Jemmy Legs, Devil's Dungeon, Signor Beneventano, Barrington Isle, Great Mutiny, Hermenegildo Gandix, Hood's Isle, Baby Budd, Bachelor's Delight, Buenos Ayres New!
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- Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville on 26 pages
- Billy Budd, Sailor (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by MELVILLE on 12 pages
- Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight (Melville) by Herman Melville on 4 pages
- Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems by Herman Melville on 4 pages
- John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Martin Scofield in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Puddnhead Wilson and Other Tales : Those Extraordinary Twins, the Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Oxford World's Classics) by Mark Twain in Back Matter
- The Blithedale Romance (Oxford World's Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne in Back Matter
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas De Quincey in Back Matter
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