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Billy Budd and other prose pieces

Herman Melville

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Billy Budd (opens in a new tab) Other prose pieces: Daniel Orme. Hawthorne and his mosses, by a Virginian spending a July in Vermont. Cock-o- doodle-doo! or The crowing of the noble Cock Beneventano. The two temples. Poor man's pudding and rich man's crumbs. The happy failure, a story of the river Hudson. The fiddler. The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids. Jimmy Rose. The 'Gees. I and my chimney. The apple-tree table, or Original spiritual manifestations. Under the rose. The marquis de Grandvin. Portrait of a gentleman. To Major John Gentian, dean of the Burgundy club. Jack Gentian. Major Gentian and Colonel J. Bunkum. The Cincinnati. Fragments from a writing-desk

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  • Short stories
  • Sea fiction
  • Novels
  • Fiction
  • Executions and executioners
  • Impressment
  • Sailors
  • Ship captains
  • literature
  • classics
  • classic literature
  • Sea stories
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