With an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates Collected here are the legendary American authoras novella, Billy Budd, and his short stories: aThe Piazza, a aBartleby, the Scrivener, a aBenito Cereno, a aThe Lightning-Rod Man, a aThe Encantadas, a aThe Bell-Tower, a and aThe Town-Hoas Storya (from Melvilleas masterpiece, Moby-Dick ).