Billy Budd, Sailor (Penguin Popular Classics)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $7.24

  they have the same compelling and mysterious power, defying ultimate interpretation. the selection includes bartleby , the enchanted , benito cereno (dramatized by robert lowell) and one of melville's supreme masterpieces, billy budd, sailor . harold beaver's introduction and notes will aid the reader's understanding and enjoyment of one of the most allusive and book-haunted of all writers, 'now recognized as a giant among american men of letters', equal in his own sphere to the greatest of his european contemporaries.