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Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories by Herman. Melville (1982, Mass Market)

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Title: Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories. Format: Paperback. Condition: New. Item Width: 18mm. Item Length: 104mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Language: English. Genre: Poetry & Drama.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100553212745

ISBN-139780553212747

eBay Product ID (ePID)335071

Product Key Features

Book TitleBilly Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1982

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Sea Stories

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorHerman. Melville

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.1 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width4.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisIf 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.", 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 comicand ultimately disastrousextreme; 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."