Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Tales

A collection of seven critical essays on Herman Melville’s shorter works of fiction including Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Bell-Tower and The Piazza Tales.

Each Modern Critical Interpretations volume opens with an introductory essay and editor’s note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the author’s life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.