Herman Melville,Frederick Busch
Tales of compelling power by one of America's greatest writers,Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, ,Moby-Dick, and ,Pierre,, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "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 illuminate, in varying guises, the way fictions are created and shared with a wider society.,In his introduction Frederick Busch discusses 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.",Bartleby --,The piazza --,The Encantadas --,The bell-tower --,Benito Cereno --,The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids --,Billy Budd, sailor.
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Billy Budd and Other Stories