Billy Budd, Sailor - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1505289157 ISBN 13: 9781505289152

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Written during the last years of Melville's life, a quarter of a century after his main work, by which his reputation was established, had been completed; and it was not published until 1924, when it was included in the limited Standard Edition. In the opinion of many critics it is Melville's most significant work after Moby Dick, and one of the most remarkable short novels ever written.

About this title

Review:

"The most studied and admired of Melville's works except for Moby-Dick." --John Updike
"[A] late-life masterpiece." --The New York Review of Books

About the Author:

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. His contributions to the Western canon are the whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851); the short work Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) about a clerk in a Wall Street office; the slave ship narrative Benito Cereno (1855); and Billy Budd, Sailor (1924). When asked which of the great American writers he most admired, Vladimir Nabokov replied: "When I was young I liked Poe, and I still love Melville, whom I did not read as a boy."

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1505289157
• ISBN 13: 9781505289152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86