Billy Budd Sailor And Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443441933

Get Book

Billy Budd And Other Stories by Herman Melville Pdf

Billy Budd and Other Stories is a collection of author Herman Melville’s most remarkable short stories. In the titular story, unfinished at the time of the author’s death, Billy Budd’s life takes an unexpected turn when he is pressed into service in the Royal Navy, and runs afoul of the jealous master-at-arms as the result of a rash, though sorely provoked, act. This collection also includes “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Encantadas,” and “The Piazza,” among others. Now considered to be a master-storyteller, Herman Melville’s work was poorly received during his lifetime. He is one of the most studied novelists in English literature, and was the first writer to be collected and published by the Library of America. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140390537

Get Book

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville Pdf

Seven stories deal with a slave rebellion, an obstinate copyist, an accidental murder, a voyage to the Galapagos Islands, and a bachelors' dinner party

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451530810

Get Book

Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Aerie
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429959544

Get Book

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. This edition of Billy Budd includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by James Gunn. 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... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191504518

Get Book

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd, Sailor, among the greatest of his works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. As the critic E. L. Grant Watson writes, `In this short history of the impressment and hanging of a handsome sailor-boy are to be discovered problems as profound as those which puzzle us in the pages of the Gospels.' Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a searching portrait of three extraordinary men. The passion it has aroused in its readers over the years is a measure of how deeply it addresses some of the fundamental questions of experience that every age must reexamine for itself. The selection in this volume represents the best of Melville's shorter fiction, and uses the most authoritative texts. The eight shorter tales included here were composed during Melville's years as a magazine writer in the mid 1850's and establish him, along with Hawthorne and Poe, as the greatest American story writer of his age. Several of the tales - Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - are acknowledged masterpieces of their genres. All show Melville a master of irony, point-of-view, and tone whose fables ripple out in nearly endless circles of meaning. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0808519425

Get Book

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories by Herman Melville Pdf

Short stories include portraits of a young sailor's clash with authority, the extreme passive resistance of a law clerk, and a mutiny on a slave ship

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180943833

Get Book

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

The 18th century is a turbulent time for the British Royal Navy, with several mutinies following each other and the looming French Navy on the horizon. Young Billy Budd is pressed into naval service against will, with his innocence and charm belying the harsh realities of life at sea. The good-natured and physically impressive Billy quickly becomes the embodiment of both admiration and envy among the crew. As the narrative unfolds, Billy’s moral integrity clashes with the strict and unforgiving naval code, leading to a tragic confrontation with the conflicted master-at-arms, John Claggart. Herman Melville crafts a gripping tale that explores the complexities of morality, justice, and the inherent tensions between the individual and the institution. HERMAN MELVILLE [1819-1891] was an American poet and novelist. Melville was not popular during his own lifetime and largely forgotten upon his death, however, during the 20th century his work was rediscovered and his novel Moby-Dick [1851] is today considered one of the great American novels.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140430296

Get Book

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101052723

Get Book

Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

A master of the american short story Included in this rich collection are: The Piazza, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas, The Bell-Tower, and The Town-Ho's Story.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192839039

Get Book

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales by Herman Melville Pdf

Outwardly a narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a parable of good and evil, a meditation on justice and political governance, and a portrait of three extraordinary men.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Digireads.com Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1420946692

Get Book

Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville Pdf

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553902891

Get Book

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories by Herman Melville Pdf

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."

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Lake Publishing Company (CA)
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1561036153

Get Book

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

A comic book adaptation of the classic in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

BILLY BUDD by Herman Melville Pdf

IN THE time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port 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. In certain instances they would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the "Handsome Sailor" of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504061179

Get Book

Billy Budd by Herman Melville Pdf

A young sailor in the eighteenth-century Royal Navy is falsely accused of mutiny in this classic tale of good and evil by the celebrated author of Moby Dick. England, 1797. Billy Budd, a young sailor aboard the merchant ship Rights-of-Man is conscripted to serve on a Royal Navy warship, the HMS Bellipotent. Innocent and charming despite his stutter, Billy is quickly accepted by the crew—and resented by the ship’s brooding master-at-arms, John Claggart. When Claggart accuses Billy of conspiracy to mutiny, the false charge sets the young innocent on an inescapable path toward tragedy. Herman Melville’s final novel, Billy Budd was first published in 1924, more than thirty years after the author’s death. A tale of virtue caught in the machinery of law and wartime vigilance, this American classic has been adapted for both stage and screen, and remains one of Melville’s most beloved works.