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Billy Budd, Sailor

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An edition of Billy Budd (1900)

Billy Budd, Sailor

(an inside narrative)

First Phoenix Edition

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  • ★★★ 3.2 (5 ratings) ·
  • 38 Want to read
  • 9 Have read

This volume provides the first accurate version of Melville's final novel and differs in important aspects from editions previously available. Through exhaustive study the editors have evolved the definitive text and have shed new light on this widely discussed work of fiction.
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Phoenix Books / University of Chicago Press
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English
Pages
220

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open_syllabus_project, literature, classics, classic literature, Sailors, Ship captains, Fiction, Executions and executioners, Impressment, Sea stories, adult readers, Study and teaching, Historical Fiction, American literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, sea stories, Large type books, Adventure stories, American Adventure stories, American Sea stories, Executions and executioners--fiction, Ship captains--fiction, Impressment--fiction, Sailors--fiction, Ps2384 .b5 2016, 813/.3

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Billy Budd, Edward Fairfax Vere, John Claggart

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Billy Budd, Sailor
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Billy Budd
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Billy Budd, Sailor: (An Inside Narrative )
2003, University of Chicago Press
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Billy Budd
1999 September, Perfection Learning Prebound
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Billy Budd
1992 05, TOR
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Billy Budd, marin
1987 May 14, Gallimard
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Billy Budd: abridged
1980, Caedmon
LP in English
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Billy Budd
1980, Ventura Books
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Billy Budd
1972 June, Washington Square Press (Pocket Books)
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Pocket Books printing (16)
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Billy Budd: With Reader's Guide
1971, Amsco School Publications
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Billy Budd, Sailor: (an inside narrative)
1962, Phoenix Books / University of Chicago Press
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Bibliography: p. 203-212.

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Other Titles
Billy Budd
Copyright Date
1962

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.36
Library of Congress
PZ3.M498 Bl, PS2384.B5 Bl, PS2384.B5 1962

Contributors

Editor
Harrison Hayford
Editor
Merton M. Sealts, Jr.

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
ix, 219 p. :
Number of pages
220

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OL24944745M
OCLC/WorldCat
562090225
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11451390

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Work ID
OL102746W

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TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR
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...


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In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty.
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