Billy Budd Bartleby And Other Stories
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Billy Budd Bartleby And Other Stories
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Billy Budd Bartleby And Other Stories written by Herman Melville and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Fiction categories.
A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals himself as a singular storyteller of tremendous range and compelling power. In these stories, Melville cuts to the heart of race, class, capitalism, and globalism in America, deftly navigating political and social issues that resonate as clearly in our time as they did in Melville’s. Also including The Piazza Tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries. This Penguin Classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Billy Budd And Other Stories
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1986-04-01
Billy Budd And Other Stories written by Herman Melville and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Brilliant short stories and a novella by the author of Moby-Dick "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," "Benito Cereno," "The Paradise of Bachelors," and "The Tartarus of Maids." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Billy Budd And Other Tales
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Billy Budd And Other Tales written by Herman Melville and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with Fiction categories.
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.
Billy Budd Sailor And Other Stories
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Release Date : 2006-08-29
Billy Budd Sailor And Other Stories written by Herman Melville and has been published by Bantam Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-29 with Fiction categories.
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."
Billy Budd And Other Tales
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Billy Budd And Other Tales written by Herman Melville and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with Fiction categories.
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.
Billy Budd Other Stories
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 1998
Billy Budd Other Stories written by Herman Melville and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Stung by the critical reception and lack of commercial success of his previous two works, Moby-Dick and Pierre, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sense of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other selections here-"Bartleby," "The Encantadas," "Benito Cereno," and "The Piazza"-also illuminate, in varying guises, the way fictions are created and shared with a wider society. In his introduction Frederick Busch discusses Melville's preoccupation with his "correspondence with the world," his quarrel with silence, and why fiction was, for Melville, "a matter of life and death." Book jacket.
Billy Budd Sailor And Selected Tales
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-02-26
Billy Budd Sailor And Selected Tales written by Herman Melville and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-26 with Fiction categories.
`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.
Billy Budd
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Aerie
Release Date : 1992-05-15
Billy Budd written by Herman Melville and has been published by Aerie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-05-15 with Fiction categories.
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.
Billy Budd And Other Tales
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Billy Budd And Other Tales written by Herman Melville and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. Melville's symbolic short novel is presented together with The Pizza Tales and a chapter from Moby Dick.
Great Short Works Of Herman Melville
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Author : Herman Melville
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Great Short Works Of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Fiction categories.
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction to this volume, "It is hard to think of a major novelist or storyteller who is not also a first-rate entertainer . . . a master, according to choice, of high comedy, of one or another robust species of expressive humour, or of some special variety of the preposterous, the grotesque, the absurd. And Melville, certainly, is no exception. A kind of vigorous supervisory humour is his natural idiom as a writer, and one particular attraction of his shorter work is the fresh further display it offers of this prime element in his literary character."