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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Wuthering Heights
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Heart of Darkness
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David Copperfield
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Persuasion
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Emma
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Pride and Prejudice
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Shirley
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Moby Dick
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Bleak House
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Nightmare Abbey; Crotchet Castle
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Our Mutual Friend
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Tristram Shandy
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Sybil
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North and South
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Villette
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
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THE Last Chronicle of Barset
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The Mill on the Floss
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Jude the Obscure
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Vanity Fair
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Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
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Romola
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The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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The Aspern Papers
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Dombey and Son
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Rural Rides
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Brief Lives
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Sense and Sensibility
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Coningsby
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Northanger Abbey
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The Woman in White
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Typee
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Daniel Deronda
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Little Dorrit
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Selected Writings
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The Woodlanders
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The Return of the Native
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Great Expectations
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The Moonstone
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |