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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

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 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

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722525274
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor written by Herman Melville and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully designed, classic edition of Melville's original tale...discovered unfinished in the author's desk shortly after his death. Billy Budd, a cheerful, good looking sailor with a natural charisma and innocence that makes him popular with the crew, is aboard a British ship during the Napoleonic wars. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense stress. Budd arouses the antagonism of the ship’s bitter master-at-arms, John Claggart, who falsely accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny. Billy, dumfounded by the accusation, becomes unable to defend himself 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, justice and mercy, right and wrong, and natural law verses man’s law as the ship's Captain recognizes the innocence of Budd's intent, but the law of mutiny requires him to sentence Billy to be hanged. Billy Budd, Sailor is the last novel written by American writer Herman Melville. Beginning the original work in 1888, it was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1891, remaining unpublished until 1924. Melville scholars engaged in study and scrupulous research of the book for many years that resulted in this final text. This classic edition offers all lovers of literature the best and most authentic version of the American storyteller's final masterpiece, which has been acclaimed as second only to Moby Dick among Melville’s Work.

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.

Reading Billy Budd

Author : Hershel Parker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810109629
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Reading Billy Budd written by Hershel Parker and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, renowned Melville scholar Hershel Parker provides the fullest introduction to and analysis of this work to date. It is the first complete reading of Billy Budd to draw on the definitive but neglected Hayford-Sealts Genetic Text. For the first time, it places Billy Budd in the context of Melville's writings and projects of the last decade of his life; and it is the first to present the work as a product of the post-Gilded Age and fin-de-siecle period rather than of the mid-century high romanticism of Moby-Dick.

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 : 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, Sailor

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 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 262 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 Lives of Robert Ryan

Author : J R Jones
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573736
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Robert Ryan written by J R Jones and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “engrossing new biography” of the actor famed for his menacing onscreen persona—and his offscreen work for peace and civil rights (Film Quarterly). The Lives of Robert Ryan is an in-depth look at the gifted, complex, intensely private man Martin Scorsese called “one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.” The son of a Chicago construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine, Ryan became a star after World War II on the strength of his menacing performance as an anti-Semitic murderer in the film noir Crossfire. Over the next quarter century, he created a gallery of brooding, neurotic, and violent characters in such movies as Bad Day at Black Rock, Billy Budd, The Dirty Dozen, and The Wild Bunch. His riveting performances expose the darkest impulses of the American psyche during the Cold War. At the same time, Ryan’s marriage to a liberal Quaker and his own conscience launched him into a tireless career of peace and civil rights activism that stood in direct contrast to his screen persona. Drawing on unpublished writings and revealing interviews, film critic J.R. Jones deftly explores the many contradictory facets of Robert Ryan’s public and private lives, and how these lives intertwined in one of the most compelling actors of a generation. “Engaging . . . Jones describes a complex man who grappled publicly with the world’s demons and privately with his own, among them alcohol and depression.” —Associated Press “Jones has done a superb job . . . A masterly biography.” —Library Journal Includes photographs

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 : 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

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.

Twentieth Century Interpretations of Billy Budd

Author : Howard Paton Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Interpretations of Billy Budd written by Howard Paton Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spectrum book. Includes bibliography.

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, 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, KGB

Author : Jerome Charyn
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486803910
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, KGB written by Jerome Charyn and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid and sensitive." — Publishers Weekly. Inspired by Herman Melville's novella, this graphic novel recounts a gifted and naïve young man's recruitment by the Soviet secret service and his adventures in New York City as a spy. The tale begins in the aftermath of World War II, when a Ukrainian orphan with remarkable psychic powers is selected and trained by the KGB. Two decades later he arrives in the United States to lead a double life. Operating under the name Billy Budd, he conducts espionage while working with a construction crew that builds skyscrapers. Billy's rescue of a co-worker and the resulting friendship lead the agent in the direction of a spiritual existence, a previously unimaginable possibility. But can Billy escape his Soviet masters? This edition features a new English translation by author Jerome Charyn, who previously collaborated with illustrator François Boucq on the acclaimed graphic novel The Magician's Wife. An Introduction by Paul Pope, author and illustrator of Batman: Year 100, provides additional insights into this Cold War thriller. Suggested for mature readers.