Billy Budd And Other Tales - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451526872 ISBN 13: 9780451526878

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

A collection of short stories features the author's posthumously published novella, Billy Budd, which traces the violent rivalry between a young sailor and a demonic superior, and a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

Synopsis:

Melville's symbolic short novel is presented together with "The Pizza Tales" and a chapter from "Moby Dick".

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0451526872
• ISBN 13: 9780451526878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352