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With an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates Collected here are the legendary American author’s novella, Billy Budd, and his short stories: “The Piazza,” “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “Benito Cereno,” “The Lightning-Rod Man,” “The Encantadas,” “The Bell-Tower,” and “The Town-Ho’s Story” (from Melville’s masterpiece, Moby-Dick).