Billy Budd by Herman Melville

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville

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Billy Budd by Herman Melville

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. Billy Budd, Sailor, his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his quarrel with God. It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in Bartelby the Scrivener, his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic--and ultimately disastrous--extreme; and in Benito Cereno, his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie The Encantados, the beautiful, romantic The Piazza, and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, The Bell-Tower.

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ISBN 13 9780140430295
ISBN 10 0140430296
Title Billy Budd
Author Herman Melville
Series English Library
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1970-06-25
Number of pages 464
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.