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Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191504513
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales written by Herman Melville and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In this short history of the impressment and hanging of a handsome sailor-boy are to be discovered problems as profound as those which puzzle us in the pages of the Gospels.' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself. The selection in this volume represents the best of Melville's shorter fiction, and uses the most authoritative texts. The eight shorter tales included here were composed during Melville's years as a magazine writer in the mid 1850's and establish him, along with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of his age. Several of the tales - Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - are acknowledged masterpieces of their genres. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in nearly endless circles of meaning. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Aerie
ISBN 13 : 1429959541
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by Aerie. This book was released on 1992-05-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the handsome sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life miserable. But when a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, Claggart realized he could do more than just torment the Handsome Sailor...He could frame Billy Budd for treason... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Billy Budd

Author : Melville H.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5521074678
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Melville H. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 2001 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Praised by critics of Britain and United States, “Billy Budd” is a highly symbolic poem about the tragic fate of a seaman forced to commit a crime. In the end, he has nothing left but to accept his fate and go to the execution of his own free will.

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales

Author : Senior Lecturer of American Literature Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198865124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor, and Selected Tales written by Senior Lecturer of American Literature Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of Herman Melville's tragic novella about the young sailor, Billy Budd, who falls victim to a petty jealousy and false accusations.

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060586540
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Great Short Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character."

Melville's Short Novels

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Melville's Short Novels written by Herman Melville and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition presents three of Melville's most important short novels -- Bartleby, The Scrivener; Benito Cereno; and Billy Budd. The texts are accompanied by ample explanatory annotation. As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" offers selections from works that influenced Melville's writing of these three short novles, including, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Transcendentalist" and Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels. Johannes Dietrich Bergmann, H. Bruce Franklin, and Robert M. Cover provide overviews of Melville's probable sources. An unusually rich "Criticism" section includes twenty-eight wide-ranging pieces that often contradict one another and that are sure to promote classroom discussion. Book jacket.

Feeding the Ghosts

Author : Fred D'Aguiar
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478632399
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Feeding the Ghosts written by Fred D'Aguiar and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary venture into the economic shadow that slavery cast, Feeding the Ghosts, based on a true story, lays bare the raw business of the slave trade. The Zong, a slave ship packed with captive African “stock,” is headed to the New World. When illness threatens to disable all on board and cut potential profits, the ship’s captain orders his crew to throw the sick into the ocean. After being hurled overboard, Mintah, a young female slave taken from a Danish mission, is able to climb back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she rouses the remaining slaves to rebel and stirs unease among the crew with a voice and conscience they seem unable to silence. Mintah’s courage and others’ reactions to it unfold in a suspenseful story of the struggle to live even when threatened by oblivion.

Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers all of Melville's short stories and novellas, including "Billy Budd, Sailor," "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and "Benito Cereno."

Selected Tales and Sketches

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101077808
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Selected Tales and Sketches written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-03-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

I Would Prefer Not To

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
ISBN 13 : 1782277463
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book I Would Prefer Not To written by Herman Melville and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.

Omoo

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Omoo written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Following the commercial and critical success of his first book, Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of South Seas adventure-romances with Omoo. Melville's second book chronicles the narrator's involvement in a mutiny aboard a South Seas whaling vessel, his incarceration in a Tahitian jail, and then his wanderings as an omoo, or rover, on the island of Eimeo (Moorea). Based on Melville's personal experience as a sailor on a South Pacific whaleship, Omoo is a first-person account of life as a sailor during the nineteenth century, filled with colorful characters and detailed descriptions of the far-flung locales of Polynesia."--BOOK JACKET.

The Piazza Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1856 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele-" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.

Selected Poems of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922691
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitman and Dickinson are the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, but who is the third? Some critics say Whittier, others say Poe, and these days an increasing number say Herman Melville. The revaluation of Melville's poetry is due in large part to the influence of this landmark volume, for Melville the poet has never found a more judicious, eloquent, or persuasive champion than Robert Penn Warren.

Great Short Works of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Great Short Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782491251284
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Moby Dick; Or, The Whale written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossings in Text and Textile

Author : Katherine Joslin
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN 13 : 161168644X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Crossings in Text and Textile written by Katherine Joslin and published by University of New Hampshire Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossings in Text and Textile explores the diverse range of transatlantic representations of clothing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. This collection of essays demonstrates that fashion history and literary history, when examined together, prompt fresh understandings of the complexities of race, class, and sexual identity. By bridging material culture and discourse, Crossings establishes the significance of fashion-while neglecting none of its aesthetic appeal-to offer historicized readings on a variety of topics, from Jane Austen's nuanced display of social interactions through the economics of muslin to the 1871 Park and Boulton cross-dressing trial and Jessie Fauset's selection of apparel to express racial power. The geographic span of textiles from different economic areas around the globe includes Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. By making use of transatlantic texts to consider the political and social positioning of both workers and consumers, the collection further expands upon the emerging cross-disciplinary study of reading dress. A true "state of the field" work, Crossings in Text and Textiles charts new scholarly ground at the nexus between fashion, textiles, and literature, appealing to a broad interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students.