false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165349975m/3737.jpg 3737 37 Collected in this volume are <i>Bartleby, the Scrivener</i>, <i>Benito Cereno</i>, and <i>Billy Budd</i>&#151;presented in the best texts available, those published during 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. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. "Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt. A Selected Bibliography is included. <P><B>About the series</B>: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the <B>Norton Critical Editions</B>. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide. 7496 1942 Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions) total:340|5:157|4:104|3:63|2:12|1:4| 340 1418 559 36 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 01:35:41 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 01:53:08 -0800 2008
I had read Bartleby and Billy Budd before back on the boat but was struck this time by Bartleby's existentia...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 15:20:06 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 15:21:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 13:57:54 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 14:00:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 15 09:32:08 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 09:35:36 -0700 2008 Billy Budd, Foretopman but I couldn't fine that edition listed anywhere. In any case, Melville was a great writer and I enjoyed these four stories, although they were a bit odd.

Bartleby the Scriviner in particular was strange, with ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 15:02:33 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 11:25:28 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Apr 11 23:25:41 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 12 11:58:17 -0700 2007 Herman Melville is an incredible author. His writing is dense, so much so that the traditional Picture-Words exchange rate cannot apply to his novels. His prose positions itself so as to increase the resolution of all images it evokes; his thousand words portray but a corner of an intricate, focu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 12:50:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 12:52:29 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 16 09:18:43 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 09:19:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sun Aug 09 13:47:31 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 13:47:57 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1961 Tue Aug 18 21:47:16 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 21:48:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:16:08 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:16:08 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Tue Sep 30 16:16:51 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 16:17:26 -0700 2008 On the other hand, many stories open with criticism of the story, and claims of disbelief...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 12 17:13:13 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:45:21 -0700 2009 Benito Cereno and Billy Budd, check. Bartleby, still left to go.]]> 2 0 false false Thu Oct 11 21:40:05 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 11 04:58:07 -0800 2007
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The Encantadas (In the Piazza Tales) is incredible: bizarre and rending and hopeful, uncanny spiritual textures.
Resembles Moby Dick in little excellent ways.

Benito Cereno! Bartleby! Billy Budd!
what more to say.
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