Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings
Edition: Northwestern Newberry Edition
Series: The Writings of Herman Melville
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Press
Published: 2009 October 30
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780810111134
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Literature: Classics
First sentence: IN THE TIME before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty.
Table of contents: title: Billy Bud, Sailor ; Weeds and Wildings ; Parthenope ; Uncollected prose ; Uncollected poetry