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Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (2006, Paperback) 
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (2006, Paperback)

 
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville (2006, Paperback)

Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Pocket Classics
Publication Date: 2006-08-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1416523723
ISBN-13: 9781416523727
Product ID: EPID51250711
Description: Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and...
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Synopsis
Unpublished in Melville's lifetime, BILLY BUDD is considered one of his greatest works. It began as a ballad, but grew into a short novel with an ambiguous plot that raises more questions than it answers, about good and evil, justice and injustice. Billy Budd, a handsome, angelic, and beloved young sailor, is wrongly accused of inciting mutiny. He lashes out in a rage and accidentally kills his accuser, the demonic Claggart, with one blow. The ship's commander, Captain Vere, a conflicted man of principle, cries, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang." And a court martial does indeed condemn the saintly Billy to death. His last words are, "God bless Captain Vere." Billy Budd is widely interpreted as a Christ figure, the victim of a kind of ritual sacrifice, after which order is restored. He is also seen as an innocent, Adam-like character who is destroyed by the evil that is inescapable in the world. When it was published, one critic called this novella "Melville's last will and spiritual testament."

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Publication Date:2006-08-01

Size
Length:164 pages
Height:6.8 in
Width:4.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:3.2 oz

Industry Reviews
"BILLY BUDD has excited the most admiration and commentary of any work by Melville except MOBY-DICK. It has the translucence and the loose weave of last works. A lifetime sifts into it. Whenever Melville ventures onto shipboard, the reader feels the deck beneath his feet."
essay - John Updike

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