Melville, Herman,  1819-1891., <br/><br/>
Billy Budd and other tales /  [print] 
Herman Melville ; with a new introduction by Julian Markels and an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. 
 - New York :  Signet Classics,  c 2009. 
 - xiii, 369 pages ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> "This edition of Billy Budd is based on a text edited by Frederic Barron Freeman and corrected by Elizabeth Treeman". 
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<br/><br/>Billy Budd --  Piazza --  Bartleby --  Benito Cereno --  Lightning-rod man --  Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles --  Bell-tower --  Town-ho's story from Moby Dick. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780451530813 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Adventure stories, American.<br/>Sea stories, American.<br/>Executions and executioners--Fiction.<br/>Ship captains--Fiction.<br/>Impressment--Fiction.<br/>Sailors--Fiction.<br/>Short stories.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS2384 PS2384.O11.B555 2009