Billy Budd and Other Stories Author:Herman Melville The works collected here were all written after "Moby-Dick" and "Pierre. "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation....The other selections here--"Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "The Piazza"--also deal, in var... more »ying guises, with the ways in which fictions are created and shared with a wider society.
Frederick Busch discusses in his introduction Melville's preoccupation with his "correspondence with the world," his quarrel with silence, and why fiction was, for Melville, "a matter of life and death."« less
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