Billy Budd, Sailor
Subtitle: and selected Tales
By: Herman Melville ; edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Milder.
Contributors: Milder, Robert.
Series: The World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780192833037
Subjects: Adventure stories, American; Sea stories, American; Executions and executioners -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Impressment -- Fiction; Sailors -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a
parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. In this edition are also eight shorter tales, reprinted from the most authoritative recent editions and are supplemented by a penetrating introduction and full notes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlii]-xliv).
Table of contents: title: Bartleby, the scrivener; title: Cock-a-doodle-doo!; title: The fiddler; title: The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids; title: The lightning-rod man; title: The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles; title: Benito Cereno; title: I and my chimney; title: Billy Budd, sailor.