The Portable Melville
By: edited and with an introd. by Jay Leyda.
Contributors: Leyda, Jay, 1910-
Edition: Reprint
Series: The Viking portable library
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Eng; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 746
ISBN-13: 9780140150582
Copyright date: 1952
Description: Two Complete Novels - Typee and Billy Budd
Self-contained excerpts of four other novels
Stories, including "Bartleby"
Selections from travel journals
Letters, poems, marginalia, and other writings specially arranged with editiorial comments that tell the story of Herman Melville's life in relation to his work.