The Portable Melville (The Viking Portable Library, No. 58)

xxii, 746 pp. Two novels, Typee and Billy Budd, complete; self-contained portions of four other novels; stories, including "Bartleby", early and later poems, journals, marginalia and other writings. Specially arranged wtih pertinent Melville letters and comments by the editor to present Melville's life in his work. Edited by Jay Leyda.