Billy Budd and Other Tales
Edition: 23rd printing
Series: Signet Classic 451-CJ1714
Publisher: Signet Classic (New American Library)
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780451517142
Copyright date: 1979
Description: Herman Melville's short stories, somewhat neglected during his lifetime, today are considered to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction.

Like his great novel Moby-Dick, Melville's stories are unique in narrative method, profound in theme, and full of delights at all levels. This collection includes not only Billy Budd (in a reading text based on the famous Harvard edition), but also all of The Piazza Tales, as well as "the Town-Ho's Story" from Moby-Dick.
(back cover)
Table of contents: title: Billy Budd --; title: The piazza --; title: Bartleby --; title: Benito Cereno --; title: The lightning-rod man --; title: The Encantadas, or Enchanted Islands --; title: The bell-tower --; title: The To-Ho's story from Moby-Dick.