Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140390537 ISBN 13: 9780140390537

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1986

Inhaltsangabe

Stung by the difficult reception of Moby Dick, Herman Melville became obsessed with the difficulties of communicating his vision to readers. His sesne of isolation lies at the heart of these later works. "Billy Budd, Sailor" is a classic confrontation between good and evil, and the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself against a wrongful accusation. The other stories also illuminate the way fictions are created and shared by society.

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Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140390537
• ISBN 13: 9780140390537
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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