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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, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226321325
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th century classic. Thoroughly annotated.

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839039
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outwardly a narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a portrait of three extraordinary men.

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 And Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443441937
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd And Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Budd and Other Stories is a collection of author Herman Melville’s most remarkable short stories. In the titular story, unfinished at the time of the author’s death, Billy Budd’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is pressed into service in the Royal Navy, and runs afoul of the jealous master-at-arms as the result of a rash, though sorely provoked, act. This collection also includes “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Encantadas,” and “The Piazza,” among others. Now considered to be a master-storyteller, Herman Melville’s work was poorly received during his lifetime. He is one of the most studied novelists in English literature, and was the first writer to be collected and published by the Library of America. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Billy Budd, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671648473
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1987-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781405072274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "1797 - the Mediterranean. Britain and France are at war. British warships are fighting French warships. Young Billy Budd arrives on the British warship, Indomitable. Billy is strong and handsome. Most of the sailors on the ship like Billy. But he has an enemy - John Claggart, the master-at-arms. Claggart hates Billy. And he has a plan. He will make trouble for the young sailor." -- Cover.

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140390537
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven stories deal with a slave rebellion, an obstinate copyist, an accidental murder, a voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and a bachelors' dinner party

Billy Budd and Other Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101052724
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd and Other Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781518813269
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Budd, Sailor is a novella by American writer Herman Melville, first published posthumously in London in 1924. Melville began writing the work in November 1888, but left it unfinished at his death in 1891. It was acclaimed by British critics as a masterpiece when published in London, and quickly took its place among the canon of significant works in the United States.

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant-sailors in holiday attire ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation.

The Works of Herman Melville: Billy Budd ; and other prose pieces

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville: Billy Budd ; and other prose pieces written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770485759
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Is it the intention of law-makers that good men shall be hung ever?” asked Henry David Thoreau. The question has never been academic, but in 1924, when Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor was published posthumously, we understood better than ever why. An uneasy if beautiful account of the human cost of realpolitik, Billy Budd, Sailor asks how far we should go to protect the status quo. When does the reaction to a security crisis become reactionary? In the novella John Claggart, master-at-arms of a British warship, alleges a sailor is talking mutiny. The sailor, Billy, isn’t just innocent of the charge; he’s a true innocent. Yet when confronted by his accuser, Billy reacts impulsively, striking Claggart. The resulting trial shows the horrors that can follow from a civilized society following its own laws. This Broadview Edition is based on the authoritative Hayford-Sealts copy-text of Billy Budd. The introduction distills the long and complex critical conversation about the work since its publication, and the historical appendices feature materials on mutiny, capital and corporal punishment, philosophical pessimism, sexuality, and the rule of law.

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443435104
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Budd’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is pressed into service in the Royal Navy at the turn of the nineteenth century. Two recent mutinies and war with Revolutionary France make for tense conditions aboard HMS Bellipotent, and when the popular Billy inexplicably falls afoul of the jealous master-at-arms and commits a rash, though sorely provoked, act, it is up to Captain Vere to administer appropriate justice. Herman Melville’s Billy Budd was unfinished at the time of the writer’s death, but was discovered in 1919 by Raymond Weaver, Melville’s first biographer. Transcription errors and difficulty interpreting Melville’s notes on the text meant an authoritative edition was not published until 1962. Billy Budd has been produced for film, stage, and television, with the most famous adaptation being the Benjamin Britten opera, with libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 0143107607
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville’s. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141974389
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an essay by Daniel G. Hoffmann. 'Life is a pic-nic en costume; one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool' In The Confidence-Man, Melville's unnerving and hallucinatory satire on the American dream, a slippery trickster and master of disguise comes to swindle his fellow passengers - who themselves may also be con-men - aboard a Mississippi steamboat. Billy Budd, Sailor, published after Melville's death in 1891, is a gripping allegory of good and evil, as an innocent man, pressed into service on a British man-of-war, is falsely accused of mutiny. Both these late works are animated with the dark genius of the greatest of American writers. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Billy Budd, Foretopman

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781710168402
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Foretopman written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville's last perfect work of art found unpublished around his work area at his passing. Billy Budd, Sailor would develop, after its production in 1924, as one of Melville's best-cherished books-and one of his most open, with its exchange of homosexuality. In it, Melville comes back to the ocean to recount to the account of Billy, a sprightly, persevering, and attractive youthful mariner recruited to neutralize his will on another ship, where he before long winds up abused by Claggart, the suspicious ace at-arms. As things raise past the gullible Billy's control, disaster lingers not too far off like Melville's extraordinary white whale, and the story becomes Melville's conclusive, glorious dive into the great tussle among human advancement and bedlam, among persecution and opportunity, just as the book in which he examines homosexuality generally straightforwardly. One of the significant works of American writing.