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Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Melville's Short NovelsThis text presents a collection of short novels - including "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "Billy Budd" - published during Herman Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author. Each text has been edited and annotated for student readers.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 01 January 2004
- Format: Paperback 418 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780393976410 ISBN 10: 0393976416
- Sales rank: 98,792
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Full description for Melville's Short Novels
Collected in this volume are "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "Billy Budd" - presented in the best texts available, those published during Herman Melville's lifetime and corrected by the author. Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. The "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano and Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Criticism" includes 28 essays about the novels which aim to promote classroom discussions. Contributers include: Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Hershel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann and Hannah Arendt. A selected bibliography is included.
