Description: Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other selections here--"Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "The Piazza"--also illuminate, in varying guises, the way fictions are created and shared with a wider society.In his introduction Frederick Busch discusses Melville's preoccupation with his "correspondence with the world," his quarrel with silence, and why fiction was, for Melville,"a matter of life and death."Bartleby --The piazza --The Encantadas --The bell-tower --Benito Cereno --The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids --Billy Budd, sailor.
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Book Title: Billy Budd and Other Stories
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1986
Topic: Classics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Sea Stories
Item Height: 0.7 in
Features: Revised
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Author: Herman. Melville
Item Length: 7.7 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
