Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales - Oxford World's Classics - Herman Melville - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199538911 - February 26, 2009
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales - Oxford World's Classics

Herman Melville

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales - Oxford World's Classics

`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. The selection in this volume represents the best of Melville's shorter fiction, and uses the most authoritative texts. The eight shorter tales included here were composed during Melville's years as a magazine writer in the mid 1850's and establish him, along with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of his age. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone, whose fables ripple out in ever increasing circles of meaning. Bartleby, the Scrivener; Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!; The Fiddler; The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids; The Lightning-Rod Man; The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles; Benito Cereno; I and My Chimney; Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative).


464 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 26, 2009
ISBN13 9780199538911
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 464
Dimensions 129 × 195 × 21 mm   ·   318 g
Language English  
Editor Milder, Robert (Professor of English, Professor of English, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri)

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