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Billy Budd and other tales

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Publisher:
Signet Classics
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick."
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Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick."
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Adventure stories, American
Executions and executioners -- Fiction
Impressment -- Fiction
Sailors -- Fiction
Sea stories, American
Ship captains -- Fiction
Short stories
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Billy Budd and other tales
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Billy Budd and other tales / Herman Melville ; with a new introduction by Julian Markels and an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates
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Adventure stories, American
Executions and executioners
Impressment
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Sea stories, American
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