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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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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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
2006, Random House Publishing Group
E-book
in English
055390289X 9780553902891
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
1999 October, Tandem Library, Brand: Turtleback Books: A Division of Sanval, Turtleback Books: A Division o
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in English
0808519425 9780808519423
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Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories
1990 March, Bantam Books
Paperback
in English
- Reissue edition
999519497X 9789995194970
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
1984-01, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Revised Classic Edition (13)
0553212745 9780553212747
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
1984 January, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Revised Classic Edition (18)
0553212745 9780553212747
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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
1982 March, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Classic Edition (2)
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Billy Budd, sailor --
The Piazza --
Bartleby --
Benito Cereno --
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles --
The Bell-tower.
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Contains:
Billy Budd
The piazza
Bartleby
Benito Cereno
The Encantadas
The bell-tower
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