This collection includes not only Billy Budd (in a reading text based on the famous Harvard edition), but also all of The Piazza Tales, as well as "the Town-Ho's Story" from Moby-Dick. Written some forty years after Moby Dick, Melvilles Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Melville's stories, like his great novel Moby-Dick, are unique in narrative method, profound in theme, and full of delights at all levels. A maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. His settings and themes are various: the limits of artistic creation the opposition of innocence and evil fear of isolation the inviolate sanctity of the human heart the fearfulness of and fascination with the "enchanted isles" the ferocity of the white whale Calvinist hell-fire and damnation. His imagination is inventive, ironic, and extraordinarily attuned to our times. Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd, Sailor is a nautical recasting of the Fall, a. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.
Billy Budd, Sailor, his last work, is the. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for BILLY BUDD AND OTHER TALES at. Herman Melville's short stories, somewhat neglected during his lifetime, today are considered to be among the small masterpieces of American fiction. If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales.
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