Billy Budd
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192839039
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 : HarperCollins
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443441937
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 : Aerie
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1992-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429959541
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 : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101052724
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 : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780606265898
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.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405072274
"1797 - the Mediterranean. Britain and France are at war. British warships are fighting French warships. Young Billy Budd arrives on the British warship, Indomitable. Billy is strong and handsome. Most of the sailors on the ship like Billy. But he has an enemy - John Claggart, the master-at-arms. Claggart hates Billy. And he has a plan. He will make trouble for the young sailor." -- Cover.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"With fairest flowers, Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele-" When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza-a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sun-burnt painters painting there. A very paradise of painters. The circle of the stars cut by the circle of the mountains. At least, so looks it from the house; though, once upon the mountains, no circle of them can you see. Had the site been chosen five rods off, this charmed ring would not have been. The house is old. Seventy years since, from the heart of the Hearth Stone Hills, they quarried the Kaaba, or Holy Stone, to which, each Thanksgiving, the social pilgrims used to come. So long ago, that, in digging for the foundation, the workmen used both spade and axe, fighting the Troglodytes of those subterranean parts-sturdy roots of a sturdy wood, encamped upon what is now a long land-slide of sleeping meadow, sloping away off from my poppy-bed. Of that knit wood, but one survivor stands-an elm, lonely through steadfastness.
Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN :
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