Billy Budd and other tales
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Penguin books, ©2009.Description: xiii, 369p. ; 18 cmISBN:- 9780451530813
- Billy Budd
- F-B MEL
- CPB Box no. 3719 vol. 11
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"This edition of Billy Budd is based on a text edited by Frederic Barron Freeman and corrected by Elizabeth Treeman".
Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-369).
Billy Budd -- Piazza -- Bartleby -- Benito Cereno -- Lightning-rod man -- Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles -- Bell-tower -- Town-ho's story from Moby Dick.
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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