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Billy Budd and Benito Cereno / Herman Melville ; with an introduction by Maxwell Geismar and paintings by Robert Shore.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS2384 .B5 1965
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Geismar, Maxwell, 1909-1979, author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Executions and executioners--Fiction.
- Executions and executioners.
- Ship captains--Fiction.
- Ship captains.
- Impressment--Fiction.
- Impressment.
- Sailors--Fiction.
- Sailors.
- Slave trade--Fiction.
- Slave trade.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Sea stories.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 176 pages : 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Benito Cereno
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Heritage press, 1965.
- Summary:
- Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is pressed into the crew of the HMS Indomitable. Benito Cereno was first serialized in 1855, and centers around a slave rebellion on board a Spanish merchant ship in 1799.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Roger W. Moss.
- OCLC:
- 610421112
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