This collection includes not only Billy Budd (in a reading text based on the famous Harvard edition), but also all of The Piazza Tales, as well as 'the Town-Ho's Story' from Moby-Dick. Melville's stories, like his great novel Moby-Dick, are unique in narrative method, profound in theme, and full of delights at all levels. Billy Budd and Other Tales (Signet Classics). Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melvilles works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. His settings and themes are various: the limits of artistic creation the opposition of innocence and evil fear of isolation the inviolate sanctity of the human heart the fearfulness of and fascination with the 'enchanted isles' the ferocity of the white whale Calvinist hell-fire and damnation. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Billy Budd and Other Tales (Signet Classics) at. His imagination is inventive, ironic, and extraordinarily attuned to our times. Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville, Julian Markels (Introduction), Joyce Carol Oates (Afterword) 5.0 (1) Paperback (Mass Market Paperback - Original) 4.95 Paperback 4.95 eBook 1.

Herman Melville's short stories, somewhat neglected during his lifetime, today are considered to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction.

Billy budd and other tales