Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671028332 ISBN 13: 9780671028336

Verlag: Pocket Books, 2001

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Reseña del editor:

Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed narrative prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man's intransigence. Since its posthumous publication in 1924, Billy Budd has become one of the acknowledged masterpieces of American literature.

Biografía del autor:

Herman Melville was born in 1819 in New York City. After his father's death he left school for a series of clerical jobs before going to sea as a young man of nineteen. At twenty-one he shipped aboard the whaler Acushnet and began a series of adventures in the South Seas that would last for three years and form the basis for his first two novels, Typee and Omoo. Although these two novels sold well and gained for Melville a measure of fame, nineteenth-century readers were puzzled by the experiments with form that he began with his third novel, Mardi, and continued brilliantly in his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. During his later years spent working as a customs inspector on the New York docks, Melville published only poems, compiled in a collection entitled Battle-Pieces, and died in 1891 with Billy Budd, Sailor, now considered a classic, still unpublished.

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• Verlag: Pocket Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0671028332
• ISBN 13: 9780671028336
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 130