Product Description

Herman Melville's dark and brilliant late works contain some of his most powerful writing. After "Moby-Dick" he turned from the high seas to record his keen, bleak vision of life at home in America. "Pierre," "Israel Potter," and "The Confidence-Man," satirical dissections of moral breakdown and social hypocrisy, anticipate modernist fiction with their black humor and formal experimentation. With them here are "The Piazza Tales"--including "Bartelby the Scrivener," "The Encantadas," and "Benito Cereno"--and the haunting, posthumously published masterpiece, "Billy Budd, Sailor." Rounding out this third volume of Melville's complete prose in the Library of America are many pieces rarely collected, including magazine stories, comic sketches, and reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Parkman, and James Fenimore Cooper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #489607 in Books
• Published on: 1984-11-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.90" h x 5.32" w x 8.12" l, 2.03 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1 pages

About the Author
Harrison Hayford, editor of this volume, is professor of English at Northwestern University and co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Works of Herman Melville.