Herman Melville Classic Stories
By: by Herman Melville.
Edition: U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition
Series: Thorndike Press large print classics
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780786280988
Subjects: Adventure stories, American.; Sea stories, American.; Executions and executioners -- Fiction.; Ship captains -- Fiction.; Impressment -- Fiction.; Sailors -- Fiction.; Large type books.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. In "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, an innocent young man is unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other selections "Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "The Piazza" also illuminate, in varying guises, the way fictions are created and shared with a wider society.
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Notes: Originally published: Billy Budd, sailor, and other stories. Penguin, 1850.
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.