Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)

Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)
by Herman Melville

Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)
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Author: Herman Melville
Editor: Dan McCall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11
ISBN: 0393976416
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary of Melville's Short Novels (Norton Critical Editions)

Collected in this volume are Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd?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.

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