Billy Budd & Other Tales by Herman Melville - Paperback

Description from goodreads.com:This Signet Classics edition contains, in edition to Billy Budd, The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas (or Enchanted Islands), The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story from Moby Dick.Melville's short stories, somewhat neglected during his lifetime, are today considered to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction.His imagination is inventive, ironic, and extraordinarily attuned to our times. His settings and themes are various: the limits of artistic creation; the opposition of innocence and evil; fear of isolation; the inviolate sanctity of the human heart; the fearfulness and fascination with the "enchanted isles"; the ferocity of the white whale; Calvinist hellfire and damnation. His stories are unique in narrative method, profound in theme, and full of delights at all levels.Click on the 'Visit Store' link above to find many other interesting books, magazines, games and other items in It Was the Best of Times for a Book.  If you purchase more than one item in a single transaction, eBay adds the shipping charges instead of calculating them.  I do refund excess paid shipping.Thank you for looking.