Billy Budd, Sailor (Penguin Popular Classics) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

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9780140621754: Billy Budd, Sailor (Penguin Popular Classics)

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ISBN 10: 014062175X ISBN 13: 9780140621754

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1995

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Stung by the difficult reception of Moby Dick, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sesne of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a classic confrontation between good and evil, and the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other stories also illuminate the way fictions are created and shared by society.

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Synopsis:

they have the same compelling and mysterious power, defying ultimate interpretation. the selection includes "bartleby", "the enchanted", "benito cereno" (dramatized by robert lowell) and one of melville's supreme masterpieces, "billy budd, sailor". harold beaver's introduction and notes will aid the reader's understanding and enjoyment of one of the most allusive and book-haunted of all writers, 'now recognized as a giant among american men of letters', equal in his own sphere to the greatest of his european contemporaries.

About the Author:

Douglas Robillard is retired from the University of New Haven and is the author of The Poems of Herman Melville (Kent State University Press,

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