TY - BOOK AU - Melville,Herman AU - Markels,Julian AU - Oates,Joyce Carol TI - Billy Budd and other tales SN - 9780451530813 AV - PS2384 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Signet Classics KW - Adventure stories, American KW - Sea stories, American KW - Executions and executioners KW - Fiction KW - Ship captains KW - Impressment KW - Sailors KW - Short stories N1 - "This edition of Billy Budd is based on a text edited by Frederic Barron Freeman and corrected by Elizabeth Treeman"; 1 (pages 366-369); Billy Budd --; Piazza --; Bartleby --; Benito Cereno --; Lightning-rod man --; Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles --; Bell-tower --; Town-ho's story from Moby Dick; 2 N2 - 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" ER -