Billy Budd, Foretopman |
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Author:
| Melville, Herman |
ISBN: | 978-1-7101-6840-2 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2019 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $6.38 |
Book Description:
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Herman Melville's last perfect work of art found unpublished around his work area at his passing. Billy Budd, Sailor would develop, after its production in 1924, as one of Melville's best-cherished books-and one of his most open, with...
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- Summary is given
- About the book is added
- Added index to get quick view and interface
Herman Melville's last perfect work of art found unpublished around his work area at his passing. Billy Budd, Sailor would develop, after its production in 1924, as one of Melville's best-cherished books-and one of his most open, with its exchange of homosexuality. In it, Melville comes back to the ocean to recount to the account of Billy, a sprightly, persevering, and attractive youthful mariner recruited to neutralize his will on another ship, where he before long winds up abused by Claggart, the suspicious ace at-arms. As things raise past the gullible Billy's control, disaster lingers not too far off like Melville's extraordinary white whale, and the story becomes Melville's conclusive, glorious dive into the great tussle among human advancement and bedlam, among persecution and opportunity, just as the book in which he examines homosexuality generally straightforwardly. One of the significant works of American writing.