Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the Scrivener & Other Tales
By Harold Bloom
1995
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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.
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Harold Bloom
Author · 172 books
Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than forty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies.
