Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales Unknown - 1973

Garden City , New York: Anchor Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. Mass Market Paperbac. 0385082711 . Mass Market Paperback, overall light soiling with a crease on the cover and spine creasing. Very clean text and no tearing. "First published in 1856, five years after the appearance of Moby Dick, The Piazza Tales comprises six of Herman Melville's finest short stories. Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: 'Benito Cereno, ' an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is a parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, and 'The Encantadas, ' ten allegorical sketches of the Galapagos Islands, which reveal nature to be both enchanting and horrifying. Two pieces explore themes of isolation and defeat found in Melville's great novels: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener, ' a prophetically modern story of alienation and loss on nineteenth-century Wall Street, and 'The… Leer más