Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Resumen del libro

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. 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.

Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Herman Mellvillex{0026}lt;/B (Nova York, 1819-1891) ha estat considerat pels estudiosos i la crítica com un dels autors més importants de la literatura universal, un escriptor de fred instint i sorpreses constants a cada pàgina. La seva capacitat narrativa i la profunditat psicològica dels seus personatges en fan un clàssic imprescindible que, malgrat el pas del temps, segueix mantenint la frescor, la lucidesa i la qualitat literària que han seduït generacions de lectors.x{0026}lt;/P