Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings: The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 13

Synopsis

Billy Budd, Sailor (an Inside Narrative) -- Weeds And Wildings, Chiefly : With A Rose Or Two. Weeds And Wildings -- A Rose Or Two -- Parthenope -- Uncollected Prose -- Uncollected Poetry -- Editorial Appendix. Historical Note / By Hershel Parker -- General Note On The Text / By G. Thomas Tanselle -- Notes On Individual Pieces -- Related Documents. Herman Melville. The New Reading Text Of Billy Budd, Sailor In This Volume Is Based On A Corrected Version (also Printed Here) Of The Genetic Text That Was Prepared By Harrison Hayford And Originally Published In 1962 By The University Of Chicago Press In A Volume Edited By Hayford And Merton M. Sealts, Jr. This New Reading Text Employs Different Editorial Principles From Those Followed In The 1962 Volume. Portions Of The Introduction And Notes To That Volume Have Also Been Used Here In An Extensively Revised Form. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 989-994) And Index.