Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Hardwick, Elizabeth. Herman Melville. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Howard, Leon. Herman Melville. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961.

Levine, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Mumford, Lewis. Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1962.

Parker, Hershel. Reading Billy Budd. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press,1990.

Wood, James. “The All and the If: God and Metaphor in Melville.” In The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief. New York: Random House, 1999.

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