Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. CONSTABLE LTD. at the University Press, Edinburgh ‘Billy Budd,’ the title-piece of this volume, is a novel finished by Melville five months before his death in 1891, and never before published. ‘Daniel Orme’ is a sketch ‘omitted from _Billy Budd_.’ The fourth piece--‘The Two Temples’--was on May 12, 1854, refused by _Putnam’s Monthly Magazine_ out of a fear of offending the religious sensibilities of the congregation of Grace Church, New York. This volume concludes with eight sketches surviving in manuscript, written, in all probability, after Melville’s retirement in 1886, at the age of sixty-seven, from his post as Inspector of Customs in New York Cit…
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