Billy Budd, Sailor & Other Stories – Usado

The tales in this selection of Melville’s shorter fiction are products of the strange and complex imagination that produced Moby Dick. Written in prose nouveau riche in its verbal splendour, antiquarian in its delight, bible echoed, allusive, elaborate, they have the same compelling and mysterious power, defying ultimate interpretation.
The tales include Bartelby, The Encantadas, Benito Cereno, and one of Mellville’s most supreme masterpieces, Billy Budd, Sailor.