Pierre / Israel Potter / The Piazza Tales / The Confidence-Man / Uncollected Prose / Billy Budd
By: Herman Melville.
Series: The Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1478
Subjects: Adventure stories, American; Sea stories, American
Other titles: Israel Potter.; Piazza tales.; Confidence-man.; Billy Budd, sailor.
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Table of contents: title: Pierre, or the ambiguities --; title: Israel Potter, his fifty years of exile --; title: The Piazza tales --; title: The confidence-man, his masquerade --; title: Uncollected prose --; title: Billy Budd, sailor, an inside narrative.