| Author |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 |
| Editor |
Weaver, Raymond M. (Raymond Melbourne), 1888-1948 |
| LoC No. |
24029693
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| Title |
Billy Budd : and other prose pieces
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| Original Publication |
Edinburgh: Constable and Company Ltd, 1924.
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| Series Title |
The works of Herman Melville, standard edition, volume XIII
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| Contents |
Billy Budd, foretopman -- Other prose pieces: Daniel Orme. Hawthorne and his mosses, by a Virginian spending a July in Vermont. Cock-a-doodle-doo! or The crowing of the noble Cock Beneventano. The two temples. Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs. The happy failure, a story of the river Hudson. The fiddler. The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids. Jimmy Rose. The 'Gees. I and my chimney. The apple-tree table, or original spiritual manifestations. Under the rose. The marquis de Grandvin. Portrait of a gentleman. To Major John Gentian, dean of the Burgundy club. Jack Gentian. Major Gentian and Colonel J. Bunkum. The Cincinnati. Fragment. Fragments from a writing-desk.
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| Credits |
Chris Hapka and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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| Subject |
Sea stories
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| Subject |
Ship captains -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Executions and executioners -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Sailors -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Impressment -- Fiction
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
76513 |
| Release Date |
Jul 16, 2025 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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