Billy Budd and Other Tales
Contributors: Willard Thorp (Afterword)
Edition: 32nd printing
Series: Signet Classics 451-CE2446
Publisher: Signet Classic
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780451524461
Copyright date: 1979
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