Browse by category
BILLY BUDD SAILOR by HERMAN MELVILLE HARRISON HAYF
Category: Fiction
Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly suggestive st ...Show more
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville; Wyn Kelley (Editor)
Category: Fiction
One of Herman Melville's best-known novels is Benito Cereno, published in 1855, and based on the real story of Spaniard Benito Cerre o, whose ship, the Tryal, seized in 1804 the slaves that he was taking by Pacific waters bound for Lima, where I expected to sell them.
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Classic Fiction
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; Melville reveals him ...Show more
Billy Budd Sailor by HERMAN MELVILLE
Category: Classics
Billy Budd, Sailor is a maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Written some forty years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor's charm and good nature put ...Show more
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Category: Classic | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An innocent and lovable young man, pressed into naval service during the Napoleonic wars, is falsely accused of inciting mutiny in this haunting tale. Herman Melville's classic parable of the clash between good and evil offers a profoundly moving examination of the balance between authority and individu ...Show more
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Robert (EDT) Herman; Milder Melville
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 ...Show more
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!' It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero - the 'Handsome Sailor' - to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy B ...Show more
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of sat ...Show more
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!' It is the end of the eighteenth century, and the navy recruits the eponymous hero - the 'Handsome Sailor' - to its fleet. Accused of mutinous behaviour, Billy Bud ...Show more
Complete Shorter Fiction by Herman Melville; John Updike (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Herman Melville (1819-91) brought as much genius to the smaller-scale literary forms as he did to the full-blown novel: his poems and the short stories and novellas collected in this volume reveal a deftness and a delicacy of touch that is in some ways even more impressive than the massive, tectonic pa ...Show more