Melville's Short Novels [Norton Critical Edition]

by Herman Melville, Dan McCall (Editor)

Other authors: Pauline Kael (Contributor)

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Contains a collection of short novels by Herman Melville, with critical explanatory annotation, and includes the stories: "Bartleby, "The Scrivener", "Billy Budd", and "Benito Cereno."

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Unless you're desperate for any Melville criticism at all, don't bother with this Norton Critical Edition. It's one of their less-successful volumes. Lots of crit is included but it's all so chopped up, edited into very tiny chunks and some things (Barbara Johnson on Billy Budd, for instance)that you'd expect to see aren't here at all.

The textual notes are even worse, routinely giving away plot points. I recommend a nicely annotated Penguin or Oxford World Classics edition instead.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Herman Melville	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
McCall, Dan	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Kael, Pauline	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Contains a collection of short novels by Herman Melville, with critical explanatory annotation, and includes the stories: "Bartleby, "The Scrivener", "Billy Budd", and "Benito Cereno."

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Novels:

Bartleby, the scrivener

Benito Cereno

Billy Budd, sailor.

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