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Book Billy Budd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher : Aerie
  • Release : 1992-05-15
  • ISBN : 1429959541
  • Pages : 129 pages

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.

Book Billy Budd and Typee Cassette and Book

Download or read book Billy Budd and Typee Cassette and Book written by Herman Melville and published by Cram Cassettes. This book was released on 1988-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billy Budd and Other Tales

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 388 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.

Book Billy Budd  Sailor and Selected Tales

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.

Book Billy Budd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher : Lake Publishing Company (CA)
  • Release : 1994-08
  • ISBN : 9781561036158
  • Pages : 68 pages

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.

Book Billy Budd  Sailor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN : 9780226321325
  • Pages : 242 pages

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.

Book Billy Budd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billy Budd  Sailor and Selected Tales

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.

Book Billy Budd  Sailor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987-03
  • ISBN : 9780671648473
  • Pages : 148 pages

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:

Book Typee and Billy Budd

Download or read book Typee and Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book CliffsNotes on Melville s Billy Budd   Typee  Revised Edition

Download or read book CliffsNotes on Melville s Billy Budd Typee Revised Edition written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore two lively classic tales of adventure on the high seas with CliffsNotes Billy Budd & Typee, the study guide that can raise your insight as well as your test scores! Meet Billy Budd, the sailor that everyone likes . . . or do they? And then set sail through the wild side of the South Seas in Typee. You’ll be up to speed on all the plot details and more with in-depth character analysis, critical essays, and insight into the novel's literary devices. You'll also discover background information on the life of Herman Melville and his place in American literature.

Book Typee  Billy Budd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Typee Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billy Budd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-10-28
  • ISBN : 9781518813269
  • Pages : 104 pages

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.

Book Herman Melville s Billy Budd   Typee

Download or read book Herman Melville s Billy Budd Typee written by Herman Melville and published by Barrons Educational Series Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to reading "Billy Budd" and "Typee" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Book Billy Budd   Typee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 77 pages

Download or read book Billy Budd Typee written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by . This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Billy Budd

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herman Melville
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1443435104
  • Pages : 128 pages

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.

Book Billy Budd and Typee

Download or read book Billy Budd and Typee written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: