num_pages: 168
description: Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most popular work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to this major American work.
language: English
title: New Essays on Billy Budd
titlecomplete: New Essays on Billy Budd (The American Novel)
ratings_count: 2
series: The American Novel
publisher: Cambridge University Press