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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 : 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, 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

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1952438535
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville’s best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship’s master-at-arms, John Claggart. Claggart, while not unattractive, seems somehow defective or abnormal next to Billy. Despite Claggart’s animosity towards him, Billy saves Claggart’s life further infuriating the man. Claggart then accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny. Billy, dumfounded by the accusation, becomes unable to defend himself against Claggart’s words because of his stuttering and in frustration strikes the lying Claggart with a blow so powerful that it kills the man instantly. In the ensuing trial Melville explores good and evil, justices and mercy, right and wrong, and natural law verses man’s law. A Masterpiece for the Ages!

Billy Budd

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Lake Publishing Company (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781561036158
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by Lake Publishing Company (CA). This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic book adaptation of the classic in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.

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

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781417647118
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated version of Melville's novel, with commentary on the author and his work

Billy Budd, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Budd ia accused of plotting a mutiny by Claggett, Billy kills Claggett and his hanged for murder.

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, and Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Budd, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781245562
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Billy Budd, Sailor (King's Classics)

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : King's Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781774371558
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor (King's Classics) written by Herman Melville and published by King's Classics. This book was released on 2020 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797, Billy Budd is forced into service aboard the HMS Bellipotent. Billy's innocence, good looks and natural charisma make him popular among the crew. After arousing the antagonism of the ship's master-at-arms, Billy is in a precarious situation where truth and justice are intertwined in a moral dilemma that will decide his very fate.

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 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, Sailor (100 Copy Collector's Edition)

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Royal Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781772269727
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor (100 Copy Collector's Edition) written by Herman Melville and published by Royal Classics. This book was released on 2020 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1797, Billy Budd is forced into service aboard the HMS Bellipotent. Billy's innocence, good looks and natural charisma make him popular among the crew. After arousing the antagonism of the ship's master-at-arms, Billy is in a precarious situation where truth and justice are intertwined in a moral dilemma that will decide his very fate.

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.