by Herman Melville · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430295
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«Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories» is a collection of tales by Herman Melville, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (464 pages, in English).
Volume gathering several of Melville's short stories, including «Bartleby», «Las Encantadas», «Benito Cereno» and «Billy Budd, Sailor». The stories, many set at sea, explore innocence, evil and the complexity of human nature with rich, evocative prose.
Edition prepared by Harold Beaver, with introduction and notes. The volume belongs to Penguin's English Library series; the original text is in English.
Recommended for readers of American literary classics and nineteenth-century maritime tales.
Herman Melville was an American writer of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851), Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia, and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was not well known to the public, but 1919, the centennial of his birth, was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.
