Título:
Billy Budd and other tales / Herman Melville ; with a new introduction by Julian Markels and an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.
ISBN:
9780451530813
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Información de publicación:
New York : Signet Classics, 2009.
Descripción física:
xiii, 369 pages ; 18 cm.
Nota general:
"This edition of Billy Budd is based on a text edited by Frederic Barron Freeman and corrected by Elizabeth Treeman."
Contenido:
Billy Budd -- The Piazza Tales: Piazza -- Bartleby -- Benito Cereno -- Lightning-rod man -- Encantadas, or, Enchanted Islands -- Bell-tower -- Town-ho's story from Moby Dick.
Síntesis:
Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick."
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ocn368338860
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