Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Tales

Name: Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Tales
ISBN: 9781555460099

by Harold Bloom · 1995

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A collection of seven critical essays on Herman Melville's shorter works of fiction including Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Bell-Tower and The Piazza Tales.

Each Modern Critical Interpretationsvolume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Modern Critical Interpretationsprovides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

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