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New Essays on Billy Budd

Name: New Essays on Billy Budd
Author: Amn Yannella
ISBN: 9780521428293

by Amn Yannella, Wil Tirion, David Ellyard

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Overview

Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most popular work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to this major American work.

Synopsis

A collection of essays providing a multifaceted introduction to Herman Melville's Billy Budd.

About the Author, Amn Yannella

Donald Yannella is the author of American Prose to 1820 (1979), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982), The Perfect Prodigy Melville on the Birth of Malcolm (1986) and Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter (1992).