Billy Budd and Other Stories brings together the final masterpiece and landmark short fiction of Herman Melville (best known for Moby-Dick). Left unfinished at Melville’s death in 1891 and published posthumously, the titular novella Billy Budd, Sailor is widely regarded as one of the most profound psychological and ethical allegories in American literature. The broader collection typically fe…
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an epic 1851 novel by American author Herman Melville. Widely considered a masterpiece of American literature and a defining work of the American Renaissance, the novel tells the harrowing, obsessive quest of Captain Ahab seeking vengeance against the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg. Blending high-seas adventure, encyclopedic details of 19th-century whal…