Billy Budd, Sailor
Subtitle: (an inside narrative)
By: by Herman Melville ;  reading text and genetic text, edited from the manuscript with introduction and notes by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr
Contributors: Hayford, Harrison, ed; Sealts, Merton M., ed
Edition: First Phoenix Edition
Publisher: Phoenix Books / University of Chicago Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Chicago, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
Copyright date: 1962
Subjects: Ship captains; Impressment; Sailors; Executions and executioners; Fiction
Other titles: Billy Budd
Work titles: Billy Budd
Description: This volume provides the first accurate version of Melville's final novel and differs in important aspects from editions previously available. Through exhaustive study the editors have evolved the definitive text and have shed new light on this widely discussed work of fiction.
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Notes: Bibliography: p. 203-212.