Billy Budd
Subtitle: and Other Tales
Edition: 24th printing
Publisher: Signet Classic/New American Library
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780451522375
Copyright date: 1979
Other titles: Billy Budd
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.
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.
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Notes: US/CAN
451-CE2237
Table of contents: title: Billy Budd --; title: The Piazza --; title: Bartleby --; title: Benito Cereno --; title: The lightning-rod man --; title: The encantadas --; title: The bell-tower --; title: The town-ho's story.