{"product_id":"billy-budd-sailor-and-other-herman-melville-9780810111134","title":"Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Uncompleted Writings: The Writings of Herman Melville, Volume 13 Volume 13","description":"The gripping tale of a handsome and charismatic young sailor who runs afoul of his ship's master-at-arms, is falsely accused of inciting a mutiny, and hung, \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor \u003c\/i\u003eis often treated as a masterpiece, a canonical work. But that assessment is at least partly founded on the assumption that the story was complete and ready for publication when it was left among the manuscripts on Melville's writing desk when he died in 1891. As Hershel Parker has pointed out, \"It is a wonderfully teachable story--as long as it is not taught as a finished, complete, coherent, and totally interpretable work of art.\" Furthering Melville's goal of getting his last literary projects into print, even in their imperfect forms, this last volume in the edition presents the poetry and prose that Melville was unable to finish, his sometimes ineffectual, sometimes heroic purposes betrayed by death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These unfinished writings include, besides \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e, two projected volumes containing poems and prose pieces, \u003ci\u003eWeeds and Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParthenope\u003c\/i\u003e; three prose pieces, \"Rammon,\" \"Story of Daniel Orme,\" and \"Under the Rose\"; and some three dozen poems of varying lengths. Some of these pieces were surely composed late in Melville's career, during his retirement, but others may date to as early as the 1850s. Except for \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e, many of these works have not been readily available in reliable texts, when available at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume, the result of the editors' meticulous study of the manuscripts, offers new reading texts, with significant corrections of words, phrases, and titles, the inclusion of heretofore unpublished lines of verse, and the return to their original locations of the two poems, \"The Enviable Isles\" and \"Pausilippo,\" that Melville had extracted for use in \u003ci\u003eJohn Marr\u003c\/i\u003e (1888) and \u003ci\u003eTimoleon \u003c\/i\u003e(1891). Hershel Parker's Historical Note traces how these writings fit into the trajectory of Melville's career, and the rest of the Editorial Appendix presents the scholarly evidence and decisions made in creating the reading texts. As a whole, the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Writings of Herman Melville\u003c\/i\u003e, now complete in fifteen volumes, offers for the first time the total body of Melville's extant writings in a critical text, faithful to his intentions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Herman Melville\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810111136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810111134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.50w x 2.40d","brand":"Herman Melville","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50663769080063,"sku":"9780810111134","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/billy-budd-sailor-and-other-herman-melville-9780810111134","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}