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An edition of Billy Budd (1900)

Billy Budd, Sailor

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  • ★★★ 3.20 ·
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Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed narrative prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence.

Since its posthumous publication in 1924, Billy Budd has become one of the acknowledged masterpieces of American literature.

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Washington Square Press
Language
English
Pages
130

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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: (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, Sailor
1999, Washington Square Press
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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
1980, Ventura Books
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Billy Budd: abridged
1980, Caedmon
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Billy Budd
1972 June, Washington Square Press (Pocket Books)
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Billy Budd: With Reader's Guide
1971, Amsco School Publications
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130)

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New York, USA
Series
Enriched classics series
Genre
Fiction.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2384 .B5 1999

Contributors

Introduction
Cyrus R.K. Patell

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxiii, 130 p. :
Number of pages
130

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OL6886991M
ISBN 10
0671028332
ISBN 13
9780671028336
LCCN
00503334
OCLC/WorldCat
708294735
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61331
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1678629

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Work Description

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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