Billy Budd and Other Stories
By: Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Frederick Busch
Contributors: Busch, Frederick, 1941-2006
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780140390537
Subjects: Short stories
Work titles: Billy Budd, sailor
Description: Seven stories deal with a slave rebellion, an obstinate copyist, an accidental murder, a voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and a bachelors' dinner party.
Table of contents: title: Bartleby --; title: The piazza --; title: The Encantadas --; title: The bell-tower --; title: Benito Cereno --; title: The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids --; title: Billy Budd, sailor.