Billy Budd, Sailor

Billy Budd, Sailor
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 022618904X

Hayford and Sealts's text was the first accurate version of Melville's final novel. Based on a close analysis of the manuscript, thoroughly annotated, and packaged with a history of the text and perspectives for its criticism, this edition will remain the definitive version of a profoundly suggestive story.

Billy Budd

Billy Budd
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952438535

While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville’s best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work. Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship’s master-at-arms, John Claggart. Claggart, while not unattractive, seems somehow defective or abnormal next to Billy. Despite Claggart’s animosity towards him, Billy saves Claggart’s life further infuriating the man. Claggart then accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny. Billy, dumfounded by the accusation, becomes unable to defend himself against Claggart’s words because of his stuttering and in frustration strikes the lying Claggart with a blow so powerful that it kills the man instantly. In the ensuing trial Melville explores good and evil, justices and mercy, right and wrong, and natural law verses man’s law. A Masterpiece for the Ages!

Billy Budd

Billy Budd
Author: Melville H.
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 5521074678

Herman Melville (1819 – 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive adventure novel “Moby-Dick.” Praised by critics of Britain and United States, “Billy Budd” is a highly symbolic poem about the tragic fate of a seaman forced to commit a crime. In the end, he has nothing left but to accept his fate and go to the execution of his own free will.

Billy Budd

Billy Budd
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Lake Publishing Company (CA)
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781561036158

A comic book adaptation of the classic in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.

Billy Budd

Billy Budd
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 399
Release: 1963
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Billy Budd

Billy Budd
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Aerie
Total Pages: 129
Release: 1992-05-15
Genre: 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.

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales

Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1998
Genre: 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.