Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories
$27.70
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
A new Penguin Classics black spine edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty.
Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143107606 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143107607 |
| Author: | Herman Melville |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 127mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Deluxe |
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1819-1863) is one of America’s greatest writers. During his lifetime, Melville published nine novels, a collection of tales, and four volumes of poetry, along with various uncollected tales, poems, and reviews.
Peter Coviello (introduction and notes) is a professor of American literature and queer studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His books include Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature and, most recently, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America, which was a finalist for a 2013 Lambda Award in LGBT Studies.
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