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Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.
Published posthumously in 1924, Billy Budd is a masterpiece second only to Melville’s Moby-Dick. This complex short novel tells the story of “the handsome sailor” Billy who, provoked by a false charge, accidentally kills the satanic master-at-arms. Unable to defend himself due to a stammer, he is hanged, going willingly to his fate. Although typically ambiguous, Billy Budd is seen by many as a testament to Melville’s ultimate reconciliation with the incongruities and injustices of life.
The Piazza Tales (1856) comprises six short stories, including the perpetually popular “Benito Cereno” and “Bartleby,” a tale of a scrivener who repeatedly distills his mordant criticism of the workplace into the deceptively simple phrase “I would prefer not to.”
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Ship captains, Executions and executioners, Sailors, Fiction, Impressment, Young men, Copyists, classic literature, Psychology, Securities industry, American Short Stories, Manners and customs in fiction, Manners and customs, literature, classics, Sea stories, adult readers, Study and teaching, Historical FictionPeople
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The Piazza Tales:
The Piazza
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Lightning-Rod Man
The Encantadas
The Bell-Tower
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