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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140390537
ISBN-139780140390537
eBay Product ID (ePID)55841
Product Key Features
Book TitleBilly Budd and Other Stories
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Sea Stories
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorHerman. Melville
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-003104
Selected byBusch, Frederick
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal813.3
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisBrilliant short stories and a novella by the author of Moby-Dick "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," "Benito Cereno," "The Paradise of Bachelors," and "The Tartarus of Maids." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.