| Description |
xxviii, 335 pages ; 20 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics |
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Penguin classics.
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| Summary |
"In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville's."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxviii). |
| Contents |
The piazza tales. The piazza ; Bartleby, the scrivener ; Benito Cereno ; The lightning-rod man ; The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles ; The bell-tower -- The paradise of bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids -- Billy Budd, sailor (an inside narrative). |
| Subject |
Seafaring life -- Fiction.
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Sea stories, American.
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Stuttering -- Fiction.
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Mutiny -- England -- Fiction.
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Good and evil -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Coviello, Peter, editor.
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| Added Title |
Short stories
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| ISBN |
9780143107606 (paperback) |
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0143107607 (paperback) |
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